8-10 White Street

8 White Street | Tribeca | built 1870

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1866

    A small delivery service operates from a Federal-style house that stood at No. 10 before the loft building

    Before the present building, this block of White Street between Sixth Avenue and West Broadway held two-and-a-half-story brick houses. By the end of the Civil War the one at No. 10 had been turned over to a small delivery service. In the fall of 1866 the company seems to have been winding down: a newspaper notice offered its nearly new covered express wagon, a seven-year-old bay horse and harness for $450.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1870

    Henry Fernbach designs a five-story loft for Eliakim Bolles, built by Marc Eidlitz

    Eliakim L. Bolles, listed in contemporary directories as a vice-president, commissioned a store and loft building of five stories and forty feet in width. It was built in 1869-70 by Marc Eidlitz, regarded as a leading figure in the building trade, to designs by Henry Fernbach. The landmarks commission classes its cast-iron facade as Italianate and Second Empire in style.

    “The structure was built in 1869-70 by Marc Eidlitz, who was considered a leader in the building profession, and was designed by…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1874

    July 30

    A pickpocket on a streetcar lifts William Vogel's diamond stickpin, and police hold a lineup

    William Vogel ran a wholesale men's clothing business in the building. As he and his brother Heyman tried to board a streetcar at Grand and Cortlandt Streets, a man jostled one of them on the platform and jumped off, and Vogel found his $250 diamond stickpin missing. On August 10 the brothers picked James McGuire, who used the aliases Tim Oates and Timothy Ryan, out of a lineup of car pickpockets, and he was held on $3,000 bail.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1893

    Clothing wholesaler William Vogel opens a 25,000-square-foot retail store in the new Cable Building

    After building a fortune in woolens during the Civil War, German-born William Vogel worked from this White Street loft and by 1893 expanded back into retail. A large ground-floor store at Broadway and Houston Street, in the new Cable Building, drew a report in The New York Times on September 17 about trucks and porters hauling in clothing. Garments were still to be made in the Vogel shops. Vogel died in March 1905.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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