55 Ludlow Street
Chinatown | built 1910
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1917
The wholesale grocery Bernstein & Wolfson is listed at 55 Ludlow Street
A 1917 grocers' directory placed the strictly wholesale firm Bernstein & Wolfson at 55 Ludlow Street. Its founder, Morris H. Bernstein, had died the year before at 44. The New York Times obituary called him the mayor of the East Side and said he headed one of the area's largest groceries. He had been planning a celebration of 20 years as an East Side grocer at Webster Hall.
Source: Ephemeral New York
- 1919
The whole building at 55 Ludlow Street is leased to a candy company
The New York Herald reported in 1919 that a candy company had leased all of 55 Ludlow Street, and Bernstein & Wolfson did not seem to last much longer. A faint painted outline reading "wholesale grocers" still shows above the ground-floor entrance of the six-story building, which later had its facade smoothed over.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- The faded ghost sign for a Ludlow Street groceryEphemeral New York
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