70 Prince Street

also 105 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1827

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  1. 1827

    Patrick Sherryd builds a brick house with a ground-floor store at Prince and Crosby Streets

    Around 1827, Patrick Sherryd put up four similar brick houses on the south side of Prince Street between Lafayette and Crosby. No. 70, on the Crosby corner, was a middle-class three-story home in Flemish-bond brick, with a store at street level and a shallow hip roof with small dormers. Its first storekeeper was Lewis T. Stansbery, a grocer.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1887

    October 19

    Assemblyman James E. Power, who co-owns the saloon here, is sued for $20,000 by a fellow saloonkeeper

    In 1886 the City Reform Club noted that Assemblyman James E. Power kept a saloon at 70 Prince, and the New York Times accused him of hiding it from friends in the country. A year later the Times reported that Richard W. Conroy, a Sixth Avenue saloonkeeper, had sued Power for $20,000 in damages. Conroy said he had come home late from his club one night in May to find Power in the bedroom with his wife.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1890

    November 2

    Alderman Patrick Oakley openly serves Sunday drinks at his saloon during an election campaign

    The New York Times reported that on a Sunday during the 1890 campaign, the blinds were drawn but the back doors swung open at Alderman Patrick Napoleon Oakley's saloon here, and two bartenders worked all day to a half-full room. Oakley held frequent consultations about the election, and upstairs the Tammany-linked Marion Club was in session. A policeman nearby, the Times noted, was busy watching a gang of small boys instead.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1891

    March 26

    Two burglars are caught in Alderman Oakley's saloon; three days later he dies of pneumonia

    On March 23, 1891, the Evening World reported that two men, Thomas Kilimet and Thomas Sheridan, were caught breaking into the saloon at 2:30 a.m. and held at the Tombs Court. Oakley was home with a cold he had caught two days before. The cold turned into pneumonia, and Oakley died shortly after midnight on March 26, remembered by the World mainly for his political and fraternal memberships.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1982

    March

    The Crosby Luncheonette is shut by health inspectors again and again

    By 1982 the old saloon space held the Crosby Luncheonette, which reopened in March of that year after a health-code closure. It was shut again in September, reopened in October, and was closed a third time in June 1983. Its successor, the Rodriguez Restaurant, was shut down by the city's Department of Health in June 1984 and cited again in 1985 and April 1986.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  6. 2011

    June

    Savoy serves its last dinner after two decades; Peter Hoffman soon announces Back Forty West

    Savoy, an American-Mediterranean bistro, opened here in 1990 as SoHo's cast-iron buildings filled with galleries, shops and restaurants, and it stayed popular for over two decades. Owner Peter Hoffman served the last dinner in June 2011, an $85 five-course menu. On February 29, 2012, he announced a downtown version of his East Village restaurant, Back Forty West, with a glass and metal storefront that exposes the cast-iron column from the 1887 renovation.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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