65 Worth Street

also 77 Worth Street, 73 Worth Street, 71 Worth Street | Tribeca | built 1920

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  1. 1859

    April 29

    Samuel Wyman builds a marble-fronted store at 65-67 Worth Street, designed to read as one with its neighbor

    On April 29, 1859, the New York Herald listed a five-story store at 65 and 67 Worth Street, on the corner of Church, among more than $5 million of new buildings going up, and credited it and the building next door at 69 Worth Street to a Mr. Wyman. The Landmarks Preservation Commission names Samuel Wyman, a dry goods merchant, as owner of the corner building. The architect made the pair look like one building, with quoins dividing the Church Street front into three sections and marble fronts above cast-iron storefronts with Corinthian columns.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1865

    August

    Bookkeeper James M. Sweeney Jr. vanishes from Terrell, Jennings & Co. with the firm's cash

    In August 1865 the dry goods importers Terrell, Jennings & Co. nearly sent a package of bank notes and checks to the bank, but bookkeeper James M. Sweeney Jr. took it, saying too many bills should not be sent. A few days later he left the city; the notes were never deposited and the books showed another $2,000 missing. Detectives traced him to Philadelphia, arrested him, and brought him back to New York to be charged with defrauding the firm.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1888

    September 6

    A Cincinnati heiress attacks merchant Joseph T. Low with an umbrella on a Fifth Avenue stage

    Joseph T. Low, whose wholesale dry goods firm J. T. Low & Co. had space at 65-67 Worth Street and was called a millionaire by The Sun, boarded a stage with his wife in front of the Union League Club on September 6, 1888. A woman in black stepped on his foot, kicked his shin and spat in his face, then beat the couple with a silk umbrella until a policeman intervened. She proved to be Harriet E. Coffin, a Cincinnati heiress already notorious for a Boston attack; Low dropped his plan to prosecute.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1928

    Delano & Aldrich join 65-67 and 69 Worth Street into one building

    In 1928 the architectural firm Delano & Aldrich connected the corner building and its neighbor internally, and the cast-iron storefront columns were almost certainly encased in stone piers then. The textile firm Wellington-Sears Company, founded in Boston in 1845, bought the combined building on March 6, 1950 and moved to 111 West 40th Street in 1957. Later offices included the Camp Fire Girls' national headquarters and city Health Department offices.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2016

    A renovation restores the storefront and converts the upper floors to apartments

    A renovation begun in 2016 resurrected the storefront of the combined 65-69 Worth Street building and turned the upper floors into apartments. There are six on each of the second through fifth floors and one on a new sixth floor that cannot be seen from the street. The building had mostly housed offices after its dry goods years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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