560 Broadway

also 104 Crosby Street, 98 Crosby Street, 100 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1884

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1884

    January 31

    Thomas Stent completes a six-story store for William Astor at Broadway and Prince

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    Work began on March 20, 1883, and ended on January 31, 1884, on this six-story store designed by Thomas Stent for William Astor. Built of brick and Wyoming stone, it is ten bays wide on Broadway and fourteen on Prince Street, with heavy brick piers capped by floral capitals and a pediment over the two center bays. The building also fronts on Crosby Street, where it is numbered 98 to 104.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1918

    June 25

    The federal Alien Property Custodian seizes the German-owned notions firm Dieckerhoff, Raffloer

    Dieckerhoff, Raffloer & Company, importers of German notions and fancy goods, leased much of the building in 1907 and later the whole of it. The New York Tribune reported on June 25, 1918 that A. Mitchell Palmer, the federal Alien Property Custodian, had taken over the firm, accusing it of hiding enemy-owned property behind an American corporation. The country's largest notions distributor was being liquidated by the end of the year.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1987

    Max Protetch moves his gallery from West 57th Street to the second floor

    In 1987 Max Protetch moved his gallery from West 57th Street to a 6,000-square-foot space on the second floor of 560 Broadway. The New York Times remarked that the building, once home to sweatshops, now housed galleries benefiting from SoHo's art scene drifting eastward. The Staley-Wise Gallery and Peter Freeman, Inc. joined him before long.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1987

    Printmaker Jon Cone opens Cone Editions Gallery with poem prints by Norman Bluhm and John Yau

    In 1987 Jon Cone launched Cone Editions Gallery here, at 560 Broadway, to show offbeat experimental projects, from large potato prints to computer-generated etchings. The first show was Poem Prints, eight big prints by the painter Norman Bluhm and the poet John Yau, drawn from a nude model at Cone's print studio. A photograph of one of Archie Rand's potato prints ran on page one of the New York Times art section on March 27, 1988.

    “In 1987, Cone opened Cone Editions Gallery at 560 Broadway in New York City's SoHo arts district.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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