60 Grand Street

SoHo | built 1896

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  1. 1896

    John Clark builds three Grand Street lofts, with No. 60 and its twin flanking a distinct middle building

    In 1895 John Clark hired Cleverdon & Putzel to design three seven-story lofts on Grand Street, numbers 60 to 64, which sit just east of West Broadway. The three share a block, but the middle building has its own design while the outer two are identical. No. 60 has a cast iron storefront, beige brick laid to mimic rustication, terra cotta panels and arched windows at the top floor. It was finished in 1896.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1899

    May 2

    The American Hide and Leather Company is incorporated with $70 million in capital and an office here

    One of the earliest tenants of 60 Grand Street was the newly formed American Hide and Leather Company, incorporated on May 2, 1899. Its capital was a startling $70 million. The Evening Telegram reported that the principal office would be at No. 60 Grand Street, although the company's tannery stood in New Jersey.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1904

    May 27

    A motor fire panics skirt makers on the third floor, and a 16-year-old fire buff puts it out alone

    On the afternoon of May 27, 1904, a wooden box around an electric motor caught fire at the skirt makers M. & I. Cohen, which employed 25 young women. Workers rushed down stairs partly blocked by packing boxes, until an athlete called the Brooklyn Ajax tossed them into the street. Sixteen-year-old Moe Greenberg, an aspiring firefighter who ran errands for Hook and Ladder Company No. 6, had extinguished the blaze before the firemen arrived.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1912

    The Hip-Fit Manufacturing Company sells a trouser-support device from a loft here, but never shows what it looks like

    By 1912 a tenant at 60 Grand Street was the Hip-Fit Mfg. Co., which advertised a device it promised would keep men's trousers up while leaving the wearer entirely free to move, and which also supported the abdomen. Its newspaper ads went on at length about the benefits but never pictured or explained the product itself. The company stayed in the building into the 1920s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1997

    November

    Philip Williams Posters sells food and theater posters here, and a Times columnist praises the shop

    By 1993, as SoHo's art scene reached the old loft buildings, Philip Williams Posters had a shop in the ground-floor space of 60 Grand Street. In November 1997 New York Times columnist Mimi Sheraton described its stock as a wild mix of posters about food, theater and other subjects, plus naive paintings on scrap metal from the rural South. The Denton & Gardner gallery took over the space around the turn of the century.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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