6 Bond Street
NoHo | built 1829
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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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- 1829
Dry goods merchant Nathaniel Weed builds a Federal-style house at 6 Bond Street
Nathaniel Weed bought land in the developing Bond Street neighborhood and began his house in 1828; it was finished the next year, 25 feet wide and three and a half stories tall. Weed headed the dry goods firm Nathaniel Weed & Co. at 191 Pearl Street and sat on the boards of the North River Bank and of the Howard Insurance Company. In 1837 he became the New York and Erie Rail Road's vice-president.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1854
Dr. Guilford Sanborn opens the New York Lung Institute in the house
Dr. Guilford D. Sanborn bought the house in 1854 and opened his New York Lung Institute there, advertising on June 4 the treatment of lung and throat disease by inhaling medicated vapor, with no drugs taken by mouth. After he dropped out of sight at the end of 1855, the institute passed in January 1856 to Dr. D. D. T. Nestell, with Noah S. Day as proprietor. It left the address in 1860.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1868
Batchelor's Wig Factory and hair dye operation takes the basement
In 1868 the basement was converted for business and became Batchelor's Wig Factory, which also made Batchelor's Hair Dye and advertised it in a Buffalo newspaper. The floors above remained a boarding house, run by James G. Aitken until he moved to West 23rd Street in 1876. Three years after he left, the wig space was turned into a restaurant, a short-lived venture.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1881
A concert saloon in the basement draws neighbors' complaints and its owner is arrested
By 1881 the basement held the concert saloon of Arthur Reisendorf, the third operator of the space since 1879. The New York Times reported on September 24 that the invalid wife of a neighbor, George R. Bevans of 7 Great Jones Street, was kept awake by noise that ran until dawn. When Bevans went to complain he met with abuse, so he went to the police, who arrested Reisendorf. By 1883 the upper floors had become offices and a meeting space.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1905
A deputy police commissioner is turned away from a poolroom at 6 Bond Street
In October 1905 police raided an office here that was running a poolroom, the period term for illegal horse betting, but the gambling carried on. Second Deputy Police Commissioner Arthur J. O'Keefe, sent by the anti-gambling commissioner General Bingham, tried to enter on October 7 and was refused by George Monroe, who answered 'nothing doing'. Monroe was arrested, although the address was far outside Bingham's jurisdiction.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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- A Lung Institute, A Wig Factory and Abandoned Women - 6 Bond StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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