535 Broadway

SoHo | built 1852

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1852
Seabury Brewster's 1852 granite store at 535 Broadway has the district's earliest Badger iron storefront
The landmarks commission credits Daniel Badger, the iron manufacturer later famous for the 1857 Haughwout Building facade, with the earliest surviving cast-iron storefronts and cornices in the district. They are on the granite store built in 1852 for Seabury Brewster at 535 Broadway. Badger had first been listed in the 1849 directory as a maker of iron shutters.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1990
September
Painter Frank Bowling's studio moves out of 535 Broadway to Dumbo
In September 1990 the painter Frank Bowling moved his studio from 535 Broadway to Dumbo, Brooklyn. The move required new storage racks for his paintings, and Rachel Scott, who later became his wife, began a ring-bound notebook inventorying his work in New York and London. Bowling had lived in New York since 1966.
Source: Wikipedia

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