Hale Building

7 East 44th Street | also 11 East 44th Street | Midtown | built 1927

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

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1927
February
Hale Desk Company leases showroom floors in the new Hale Building
Fred T. Ley & Company built the office building at 11 East 44th Street, with Shreve & Lamb as architects. In February 1927 the Hale Desk Company signed a fifteen-year lease on the second, third, and fourth floors. The roughly 16,000 square feet served as its main showrooms and executive offices.
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1936
April
The Hale Building is auctioned in 1936 in a case brought by Continental Bank and Trust
In April 1936 the Hale Building's leasehold was sold at auction on a winning bid of $1,750,000. The sale followed a court judgment involving $909,072, in which Continental Bank and Trust Company, as trustee, was the plaintiff and the owner, Eleven East 44th Street Corporation, was the defendant. The court awarded the building to the trustee.
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2019
Brooks Brothers buys the Hale Building for $106 million
A Brooks Brothers store had opened in the Hale Building in 2008. In 2019 the building was sold to the clothing company for $106 million, giving it ownership of the Midtown property where it had been a tenant.
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