Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9
782 8th Avenue | Times Square | built 1974
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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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- 1909
The body of Elsie Sigel is found in a trunk in the earlier building on this site
An earlier rooming house on this site, where Chinese immigrant Sun Leung ran a restaurant and let rooms, became the scene of a sensational murder when missionary worker Elsie Sigel, granddaughter of Civil War general Franz Sigel, was found strangled and stuffed in a trunk in a tenant's room. The chief suspect, Leung's nephew William Leon, fled the city and the case was never solved.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2001
The Theater District firehouse loses 15 members at the World Trade Center
The firehouse at Eighth Avenue and West 48th Street sent its crews about three and a half miles downtown after the World Trade Center was hit on September 11, 2001. Fifteen of its members died, the heaviest loss of any FDNY firehouse among the department's 343 dead. On the 25th anniversary in 2026, firefighters and families gathered at a memorial park near the firehouse.
Source: amny.com
Further reading
- The Scene of an Infamous Murder--the Lost 782 Eighth AvenueDaytonian in Manhattan
- The unsolved Chinatown trunk murder of 1909Ephemeral New York
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