500 Broome Street
also 367 West Broadway | SoHo | built 1874
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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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- 1874
Charles Mettam, who designed Lincoln's New York catafalque, completes a cast-iron store at West Broadway
George Marchand began the building on August 6, 1874, and it was finished on December 21. His architect was the Irish-born Charles Mettam, who had been picked to design the canopied catafalque for Abraham Lincoln's coffin in New York in 1865. The Broome Street front blends neo-Grec piers with a Second Empire touch, cast by the Aetna Iron Works.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1876
A coroner's jury rules a boy's fall through an open hatchway accidental and urges closing it
The building's rear hatchway, a shaft for hoisting crates by pulley, killed a boy named William Mulligan in the summer of 1876. At an inquest, Coroner Eickhoff's jury returned a verdict of accidental death. It recommended that the store keep the hatch closed except when in use.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1878
A 21-year-old clerk who embezzled $10,000 from Keep Manufacturing is arrested in New Orleans
Alexander De Leuw handled the cash and books for the shirt maker Keep Manufacturing Co. He falsified payroll records to pay for a costly lifestyle. When the audit came in December 1877, he destroyed the books and vanished. Detectives guessed he would head for New Orleans, where his family was well connected, and on January 28, 1878 he was arrested there.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1886
Keep Manufacturing grants its workers a Saturday half-holiday
Garment workers of the 1880s typically put in 50 to 60 hours during the week, plus nine on Saturday. After a Syracuse campaign for Saturday half-holidays in 1885, the Evening Telegram reported on May 6, 1886 that Keep Manufacturing's management had given its employees the Saturday half-holiday starting May 8.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1977
A spice factory fills SoHo lofts with an aroma that makes neighbors sneeze
By 1977 the Food Trading Corporation was filling 100,000 cans of seasoning a day here, just as SoHo became residential. A New York Times writer reported that the smell outside was sharp enough to make some residents sneeze. The firm's vice president, Max Scherer, brushed off complaints, claiming the herb-laden air kept the neighbors from catching colds.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Charles Mettam's 1874 500 Broome StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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