676 Broadway

NoHo | built 1874

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1850

    Attorney DeLancey Kane and his Astor-descended wife live in the earlier house at 676 Broadway

    By the early 1850s, a private house stood on the site of 676 Broadway, home to attorney DeLancey Kane and his family. His wife, Louisa Dorothea Langdon, was a granddaughter of John Jacob Astor I. As the area turned commercial, Kane held on to the property and rented it out until 1873, when he demolished the house to make way for a new building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1874

    Detlef Lienau designs a marble-faced store and warehouse at 676 Broadway for DeLanay Kane

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    Detlef Lienau designed the five-story Renaissance Revival building, constructed in 1873-74 for DeLanay Kane. Freeman Bloodgood was the builder and the cost was $70,000. By the 1920s it held manufacturing lofts, a use that continues above the ground floor, and it retains an early pressed-metal and glass storefront from about 1921.

    “…designed by Detlef Lienau and constructed in 1873-74 for DeLanay Kane ... Built by Freeman Bloodgood, it cost $70,000…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1985

    Keith Haring takes a fifth-floor studio at 676 Broadway and works there until his death

    Artist Keith Haring worked from a fifth-floor studio at 676 Broadway from 1985 until he died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. There he made work supporting gay rights and the fight against AIDS. In 1989, a year after his diagnosis, he set up the Keith Haring Foundation at the same address, which still supports children's and AIDS charities.

    Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

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