Corn Exchange Bank
74 Grove Street | also 204 West 4th Street | West Village | built 1919
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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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- 1919
Corn Exchange Bank buys the Sheridan Square corner for its 42nd branch and hires S. Edson Gage
The Sun reported on March 19, 1919 that Corn Exchange Bank, founded in 1853, had bought the Grove Street and Sheridan Square lots across from the new Seventh Avenue subway station. Architect S. Edson Gage designed a neo-Georgian bank in red and gray Flemish-bond brick for the oddly shaped plot, which was more than 91 feet long on the square and 15 feet on Grove Street. Gage returned in 1929 to double the Grove Street side.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1928
Two bandits ambush a cashier who has just drawn a payroll from the Sheridan Square branch
Just before noon on August 11, 1928, A. E. Gleason, who was the cashier for the Arthur R. Purdy Iron and Metal Work Company, located on Greenwich Street, left the branch carrying the firm's payroll. Two men, one with a pistol, attacked him in the hallway of his building. They escaped with money that would equal about $8,800 today.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1933
A teller finds a Lindbergh ransom bill in a movie theater's deposit
On the night of November 26, 1933, Richard Hauptmann tossed a folded $5 bill at the cashier of Loew's Sheridan theater, Cecelia Barr, who remembered him because he wore no overcoat on a cold night. The next morning the theater's receipts went to this branch, where teller William Cody, alerted by an FBI pamphlet, matched the bill's serial number to the Lindbergh ransom. Barr's description and testimony helped convict Hauptmann, and she received a $1,000 reward in 1938.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1975
Burglars break into the office of a feminist periodical distributor upstairs
Upstairs from the bank, Ragwomen Distributors supplied newsstands with feminist periodicals such as the women's biweekly newspaper Majority Report. In February 1975 intruders broke in and stole typesetting equipment and financial records. Employee Nancy Borman told reporters that bright orange paint had also been sprayed on the walls.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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