686 Broadway

NoHo | built 1993

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

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1938
A fire strips three upper stories off the building at 686 Broadway
The five-story mid-nineteenth-century loft building at 686 Broadway lost its top three floors in 1938, when they were demolished after a fire. Its owner at the time was the City Bank Farmers Trust Company. The lower floors were later rebuilt, with a bank branch following in 1950.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1950
National City Bank builds a two-story branch here after a second fire
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In 1950 a fire partly destroyed the building, and National City Bank put up a new two-story bank branch designed by Lusby Simpson. The second story was reconstructed with a new facade that year. A completely new glass-and-marble facade followed in 1993 for owner Joseph Joseph, designed by Harold Weinberg.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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