Nino Mier Gallery
514 Broadway | also 62 Crosby Street, 66 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1900
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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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- 1871
An earlier theater on this lot becomes Josh Hart's Theatre Comique
Before the present building, the lot at 512-514 Broadway held Wood's Minstrel Hall, which in 1862 stood beside a house at 516. In 1871 Josh Hart took over the theater, renamed it the Theatre Comique and switched to popular variety shows. By 1881 the entertainment district had moved north, and investors demolished the theater along with the buildings behind it on Crosby Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1881
Lamb & Wheeler build a six-story brick store with lions' heads and leaded-glass windows
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Investors E. Livingston, W. H. De Forest and C. L. Perkins hired Lamb & Wheeler, who filed plans in June 1881 and began building on August 8. The six-story brick building has iron storefronts set in rough stone, tall piers, carved lions' heads and a top floor of arched windows with leaded glass. It was finished on August 31, 1882.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1882
A 20-year-old employee of a trimmings firm is arrested for stealing $10,000 in goods
J. W. Goddard & Sons, makers of trimming goods and one of the first tenants, discovered that 20-year-old John Gray had stolen about $10,000 of its merchandise and sold it to a Jersey City tailor. Gray was arrested on December 2, 1882 but freed in February. Goddard complained that only $18 of the goods were recovered, and the tailor was later sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1885
A cashier disappears with $90,000 from an apparel firm on the sixth floor
Frederick Fishe, cashier of the apparel firm August, Burnheim & Bauer, vanished on September 18, 1885, and the books showed $90,000 missing. He fled to Canada, then wrote his employers that he had lost the money at gambling houses. He was tracked down and brought back for trial, and gambling later sent him back to jail for other crimes.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1886
A fire nearly guts the top floor after an alarm company delays its response
Fire broke out early on April 22, 1886, just after tenants received their spring stock. The building's automatic alarm rang at 6:49 a.m., but an employee at the alarm company assumed a wiring fault and sent a subordinate to check, a delay of about seven minutes. Firemen had just been called back from inside when part of the brick roof fell, and the top floor was nearly gutted.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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