Rogers Peet Building
575 Broadway | also 142 Mercer Street, 569 Broadway | SoHo | built 1882
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1881
The Astor brothers leave their 1835 Prince Street office, which gives way to a new building
After William Backhouse Astor died in 1875, his sons William and John Jacob III kept running the family's real estate holdings from an 1835 Greek Revival building at 81 Prince Street, an earlier building on this site. Within about five years they decided to move uptown, hiring the architect Thomas Stent for a new Astor headquarters on West 26th Street and for a large commercial building to replace the old one here. Construction began on March 28, 1881.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1882
Thomas Stent finishes a six-story Astor store at Broadway and Prince
Construction of this six-story store began on March 28, 1881, and was finished on March 29, 1882. Thomas Stent was the architect, James Webb & Sons the builder and J. J. Astor the owner. Faced in brick, stone and iron trim, it is ten bays wide on Broadway and thirteen on Prince Street, and its Mercer Street side is numbered 142 to 146.
- 1882
Rogers, Peet & Co. moves its clothing store into the new building
Rogers, Peet & Co., a men's and boys' clothing store founded on Broome Street six years earlier, took the ground floor, and a March 1882 Tribune advertisement told shoppers it had moved to a much larger store. The firm trained clerks in courtesy, promised money back on unsatisfactory goods, delivered purchases the same day and printed its name small on boxes so customers did not advertise that their clothes were ready-made. It left for a new store farther up Broadway in 1902.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1983
Billy Joel is photographed on the front steps of 142 Mercer Street for An Innocent Man
The cover photograph of Billy Joel's ninth studio album, An Innocent Man, was shot on the front steps at 142 Mercer Street, the Mercer Street side of this corner building. The album came out on August 8, 1983, drew on the doo-wop and soul music of Joel's adolescence, and yielded seven singles, including 'Tell Her About It' at No. 1 and 'Uptown Girl' at No. 3.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1990
Interview magazine moves its headquarters to 575 Broadway
In 1989 Brant Publications paid $10 million to buy Interview from Andy Warhol's estate. Ingrid Sischy, the editor-in-chief, spent her first months running things out of Warhol's Factory before the magazine's offices went downtown to 575 Broadway in 1990, with interiors by Jed Johnson. She left the magazine in 2008.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1999
The Guggenheim's SoHo branch shrinks as Prada takes over the ground floor
The New York Times reported on March 26, 1999 that the Guggenheim's SoHo branch, closed since January, would reopen on May 12 with 7,000 fewer square feet. Prada, the Italian retailer, was to turn most of the museum's former ground floor at the Prince Street corner of 575 Broadway into its third SoHo store, with a renovation by the Dutch architect Koolhaas. The upper floors filled with magazine publishers, among them Art in America and Interview.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2006
A fire guts five of the six floors at 575 Broadway
In January 2006 a fire tore through five of the building's six floors. About 200 firefighters fought it for three hours. Deputy Assistant Fire Chief Ronald R. Spadafora said the interior would mostly need rebuilding, but the brick facade came through nearly undamaged.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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