Cone Export Company Building
57 Worth Street | also 59 Worth Street, 234 Church Street | Tribeca | built 1928
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- 1927
Cone Export Company tears down its plain six-story brick building at the corner of Church Street
Before the current building, the northwest corner of Worth and Church Streets held a six-story brick factory and store used by the Cone Export and Commission firm. Its architect had not aimed at commercial beauty, and the building was described as uninspired. In 1927 the company prepared it for demolition to make way for a modern replacement.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1929
Architect Edward I. Shire completes a nine-story Florentine Renaissance building for Cone Export
Edward I. Shire designed a nine-story building with a two-story rusticated base, a plain six-story midsection and arched top-floor windows, in the manner of an early Florentine palazzo. It opened on February 1, 1929, nearly fully rented. Cone Export occupied the basement through third floor, and A. S. Haight & Co., Ely & Walker and Chatham Manufacturing took the upper floors.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1944
A Chatham Manufacturing advertising man navigates a Coast Guard cutter that captures a German ship
Curtiss Howard, assistant advertising manager at Chatham Manufacturing, left his job in 1942 to join the Coast Guard. On December 14, 1944, the Navy announced that he had been navigator of the cutter Eastwind when it found the German ship Externsteine caught in ice off Greenland; the crew surrendered after a few salvoes. He then supervised the captured ship's 700-mile voyage to Reykjavik, and a naval district headquarters said he was the first American officer known to command a captured enemy ship in the war.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1962
New York Law School moves to 57 Worth Street, its home in Tribeca
New York Law School reopened in 1947 and ran from 244 William Street, and the American Bar Association accredited it in 1954. In 1962 the school relocated to its Tribeca building at 57 Worth Street.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1986
Prisoners' rights activist Martin Sostre is arrested while reading in the New York Law School library
Martin Sostre, a national symbol of prisoners' rights who studied law during a prison term that ended in 1975, was accused in 1984 of shooting a tenant at the Washington Heights apartment house where he was assistant manager. After two years as a fugitive, he was recognized one evening, May 22, 1986, poring over law books in the school's library here. A lawyer quietly alerted police, who made the arrest.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The 1929 Cone Export Co. Building - 57-59 Worth StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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