5 White Street
also 221 West Broadway, 3 White Street | Tribeca | built 1868
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1868
Isaac F. Duckworth designs an L-shaped six-story store for military-goods dealer William D. Mann
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Builder Walter Jones put up the corner store at 5-7 White Street and 221-223 West Broadway in 1868 for William D. Mann, a dealer in military goods. Isaac F. Duckworth drew the plans, and the building ran 50 feet along White Street and 34 along West Broadway. It first had a mansard roof, which was taken off in 1925 and replaced by a brick-faced sixth story.
“It was constructed in 1868 by Walter Jones for William D. Mann, a dealer in military goods, according to the plans of architect Isaac F. Duckworth.”
- 1870
A man snatches six coats from a menswear shop at 5-7 White Street and a clerk follows him to the Tombs court
On August 30, 1870, a man posing as a customer, John Dolan, grabbed six coats from Herman August's menswear store in the building and ran out. Clerk Isaac Strauss chased him, and by afternoon all three were at the Tombs court. August testified that the coats were worth $65, and Justice Dowling held Dolan to answer.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1984
Artists Space moves its gallery into 223 West Broadway, where it stays until 1993
The nonprofit gallery Artists Space had started at 155 Wooster Street and moved to 105 Hudson Street in 1977. In 1984 it relocated to 223 West Broadway, the West Broadway face of this White Street building. It remained there until it moved to 38 Greene Street in 1993. The organization's archive is held at New York University's Fales Library.
Source: findingaids.library.nyu.edu
- 1989
Artists Space prepares an AIDS exhibition, and the NEA withdraws a $10,000 grant over its catalog
In November 1989 Artists Space, then housed in the building, prepared to open "Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing," an exhibition about AIDS. Its catalog made remarks about Cardinal John O'Connor, Senator Jesse Helms and Representative William Dannemeyer, and in response the National Endowment for the Arts withdrew its $10,000 grant. On November 10 the New York Times remarked on the dispute.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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