665 Broadway

also 230 Mercer Street, 661 Broadway | NoHo | built 1912

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

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1872
Publisher George P. Putnam runs his business at 661 Broadway until his death in 1872
Before the present building at 661 Broadway, a five-story masonry building stood on the site for about half a century. For decades the publisher George P. Putnam ran his business there, until his death in 1872. Moses Sachlein bought the property around 1890 and razed the old structure in 1891 to build an eight-story store and loft building designed by Brunner & Tryon.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1912
V. Hugo Koehler designs a twelve-story neo-Gothic loft building for Harry Fischel's company at 663-665 Broadway
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The 663-665 Broadway building went up in 1911-12 for a company named for its address, with Harry Fischel as president. It replaced a mid-nineteenth-century hotel. Fischel owned it until at least 1918, and the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank held it for several years in the 1930s. Small manufacturing firms occupied it until the late 1980s, when the upper floors became offices.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1941
April
Adam Hat Stores buys 661 and 663-665 Broadway from the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
In April 1941 the Adam Hat Stores chain bought the two adjoining buildings from the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank. Together they formed 120 feet of Broadway frontage. In 1954 Adam Hats sold them to realty operator Jack Braus but stayed on, taking a ten-year lease on the 50,000 square feet it already occupied.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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