83 Chambers Street

also 65 Reade Street | Tribeca | built 1854

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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. 1853

    The Bininger estate builds a dry goods store on the site of its founder's house

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    This five-story building went up in 1853-54 for the estate of Jacob Bininger, founder of the wine and tea merchants Bininger & Son. Bininger had lived in a brick dwelling that stood on the site earlier. The first tenant was the dry goods jobbing firm Gage, Sloan & Dater.

    “This structure was built in 1853- 54 for the estate of Jacob Bininger, the founder of Bininger & Son, wine and tea merchants, who lived in a brick dwelling…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1899

    Architect William Bloodgood puts a cast-iron show window into the second story

    In 1899 architect William E. Bloodgood removed the second-story facade on Chambers Street and installed a show window framed in cast iron, with ornamented pilasters, slender mullions and a bracketed cornice. The window's framing and the cast-iron end piers at street level are both largely still in place.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1900

    A numbering-machine maker and the city's Finance Department are among 83 Chambers Street's tenants

    Over the years the building held hardware commission agents in the 1870s and, by 1900, the Bates Manufacturing Co., which was the sole maker of Bates & Edison hand-numbering machines and daters. In 1908 the New York City Finance Department occupied the first story. Other later tenants were the Fruit Trade Journal, the McNutt Can Sales Co. and the United Camera Exchange.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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