Olliffe's Pharmacy site

6 Bowery | also 8 Bowery | Chinatown | built 1920

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

1. 1806

   Olliffe's apothecary opens at 6 Bowery and serves Chatham Square for 176 years

   An apothecary called Olliffe's opened in 1806 at No. 6 Bowery, on the Chatham Square end of the street. It kept serving customers from that spot until 1982, a run of 176 years. Forgotten New York pictures the shop in a 1934 view.

   Source: Forgotten New York

2. 1958

   The Bun Sum Chinese restaurant runs from the old wooden building at 8 Bowery

   By 1958 the original No. 8 Bowery, a wood-frame building beside the old Olliffe pharmacy, housed the Bun Sum Chinese restaurant. The pharmacy building at No. 6 and its business both dated to the late 1700s or the turn of the nineteenth century, and the Historic American Buildings Survey recorded the structure. The pharmacy building was replaced in the early 1980s, and the present building at No. 8 dates from 1985.

   Source: National Register nomination

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