A.I.R. Gallery building

63 Crosby Street | also 61 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1900

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

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

1876
A brownstone store and loft building rises at 61-63 Crosby Street in two phases
The northern half was built in 1873-74 by W. Joralemon for R. W. Woodworth. The southern half followed in 1875-76 under architect Theodore A. Tribit for the estate of John R. Lawrence. Corinthian columns at the ground floor and a bracketed cornice give the Italianate and neo-Grec building its look.
“…built in two phases from 1873 to 1876…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1971
The Grand Union dance studio is among the tenants of 61-63 Crosby Street, long a home to paper dealers
Earlier tenants were paper and waste dealers, among them John Crotty in 1892, the Ace Paper Stock Co. in 1917 and D. Catasano Co. in 1942. In 1971 a dance studio for the Grand Union was listed here. In 1981 the building became a residential cooperative.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1981
A.I.R. Gallery, the women's art cooperative, moves into 63 Crosby Street
Founded in 1972 by Barbara Zucker, Susan Williams, Dotty Attie, Mary Grigoriadis and others, A.I.R. showed art by women as an alternative to male-dominated galleries. Its first space was at 97 Wooster Street. It occupied 63 Crosby Street from 1981 to 1994 before moving to 40 Wooster Street.
Source: Wikipedia

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