625 Broadway

also 192 Mercer Street | NoHo | built 1898

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1898
David W. King's twelve-story steel-frame loft building replaces a stone store at 625 Broadway
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The New York Improvement Company had David W. King design 625 Broadway, which went up in 1896-98 as twelve stories on a steel and iron frame, faced in limestone on Broadway and brick on Mercer Street. It took the place of a stone commercial building from the mid-1800s, part of a wave in which five- and six-story lofts gave way to taller structures. Small manufacturers occupied the floors above the first until the 1980s, when it became an office building.
“This store and lofts building was designed by David W. King and constructed in 1896-98 for the New York Improvement Company…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
March 26
A fire from next door at 623 Broadway spreads into 625 Broadway on March 26, 1912
A fire that broke out at 623 Broadway on March 26, 1912, quickly spread to No. 625. Insurance Engineering magazine reported that the spread through the lower stories was so rapid that at the twelfth story flames came in through the windows of the light shaft shared by 625 and 627-629. The same blaze gutted the tenth story of the Richter building at 627-629.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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