East River Bank Building
680 Broadway | NoHo | built 1860
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1860
The East River Bank turns an old house at 680 Broadway into its new home
In 1859-60 the East River Bank, later called the East River National Bank, rebuilt a private dwelling on this Broadway lot into a four-story commercial building with a marble front. The bank had been founded in 1852 on Third Avenue and moved here once the work was finished in 1860. It kept the building through at least 1920, and for a time also occupied the neighboring building at 682 Broadway.
- 1866
Photographer Napoleon Sarony opens his first American portrait studio at 680 Broadway
After coming back to New York in June 1866, Napoleon Sarony opened his first portrait studio in the United States at 680 Broadway. By 1876 he had shifted his work to a studio building at 37 Union Square, which became the better-known of his studios. He went on to photograph celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, and a case over his 1882 Wilde portrait reached the Supreme Court, which decided it in 1884.
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- 1920
The bank widens its banking room into 682 Broadway and rents upper floors to small firms
A 1920 alteration extended the East River National Bank's ground-floor banking room next door into 682 Broadway and added a new storefront. The upper floors then housed a clothing and hat maker, a feather dealer and a coffee warehouse. The opening between the two buildings was sealed in 1941, when the ground floor stopped being a bank and became a factory.
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