659 Broadway

also 657 Broadway, 77 Bleecker Street | NoHo | built 1930

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

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1866
Rug dealer William Sloane and upholsterer Barnel Solomon acquire the new stores at 657-659 Broadway
The stores at 657-659 Broadway were built in 1866-67 and are attributed to architect Griffith Thomas. William Sloane, a rug dealer, and Barnel Solomon, an upholsterer, acquired them from T. S. Wiley. Sloane's firm, W. and J. Sloane, had begun in 1853 as a modest carpet shop near City Hall and by the mid-1870s was a leading seller of Oriental rugs to wealthy New Yorkers. The Sloanes sold their NoHo properties and moved uptown in 1881.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1979
A 1979 fire during conversion collapses three neighboring buildings; 657-659 Broadway is enlarged into the new complex
In 1979 a serious fire broke out while the old store buildings at 649-659 Broadway were being converted to apartments, and three of them collapsed. The less damaged 657-659 Broadway was rehabilitated and enlarged as part of the new apartment complex, which has its entrance on Bleecker Street. The marble facades of the collapsed buildings were stabilized, and the complex was finished in the early 1980s.
“…reconstructed as an apartment complex in the early 1980s after suffering a serious fire and collapse in 1979…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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