6 Stone Street
Financial District | built 1910
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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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- 1795
An earlier house on the lot is the home of Joseph Fay and Elizabeth Broome Fay
Before the current building, No. 6 Stone Street held a residence. In 1795 it was the home of Joseph Fay and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Broome, when Stone Street was still residential. By 1861 the house was vacant and offered at $1,800 a year. It survived to at least 1869, and a five-story brick warehouse replaced it afterward.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1882
The Murphys remodel a fire-damaged warehouse into a store and office building
A fire damaged the five-story warehouse in late 1879, and architect William H. Hume repaired it so that its owner, the Emigrants' Industrial Savings Bank, could sell it. Nicholas and Eliza Murphy bought it for $15,000. They hired A. Hatfield, whose May 1882 plans gave it a red brick and limestone front with a ground-floor space meant for a restaurant, at a cost of $16,000.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1929
The Murphy family holds out as a developer announces a Broad Street blockfront that includes their lot
In June 1929 the Utilities Building Corporation announced that, after a year of negotiations, it had assembled a full Broad Street blockfront running from Stone to Bridge Street, No. 6 among the lots. The announcement was premature, because the Murphy family still owned the 25-foot-wide lot and was not ready to sell. They kept it into the 1930s at least, and later construction on Stone Street went around the property.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1947
The FBI arrests a former port captain who sold false job letters to Puerto Rican job seekers from an office here
In 1947 John H. Powers, a former assistant port captain for Cities Service Oil, set up an office here and ran a racket. Applicants for Coast Guard seamen's certificates who were rejected for lacking a job letter were sent by a runner to see the captain at 6 Stone Street, where Powers wrote false letters of introduction for $20 to $25. The FBI arrested him on July 23, 1947.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1949
More than 400 seamen crowd Stone Street to protest the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
By 1949 the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union had its headquarters at No. 6. On April 11, more than 400 sailors packed the narrow street to protest that the union would not refuse jobs to cooks suspected of Communist leanings. A Sailors Union of the Pacific representative said other seagoing unions had expelled Communist members, while a cooks' official said the union had never interfered with another union's jurisdiction.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Stubborn Hold Out at No. 6 Stone StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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