512-516 Broadway

56 Crosby Street | also 512 Broadway | SoHo | built 1900

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1882
August 31
Lamb & Wheeler finish a six-story brick building where the theater and Crosby Street houses stood
In 1881 investors E. Livingston, W. H. De Forest and C. L. Perkins bought and tore down the old theater and the buildings behind it on Crosby Street. Lamb & Wheeler filed plans in June for a six-story brick store estimated at about $300,000, construction began on August 8, and it was finished on August 31, 1882. Early tenants included J. W. Goddard & Sons, makers of trimming goods.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1914
February
Arthur Frankenstein & Co. begins a national ad campaign for Kewpie garters at 512-516 Broadway
Arthur and Edwin Frankenstein moved their garter-making firm into the building in 1912. When the Kewpie doll craze swept the country, the company jumped on it, and in February 1914 a trade journal reported that the success of its Kewpie garter advertising had led to a national campaign. It still called itself the maker of Kewpie Garters into the 1920s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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