87 Crosby Street

also 248 Lafayette Street | SoHo | built 1900

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

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1900
C. Abbott French designs a six-story store and loft building at 87 Crosby Street
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In 1900 architect C. Abbott French designed a six-story brick building running through the block from Crosby Street to Lafayette Street, built for an owner named Olsen. Its brick piers, stone banding and round-arched sixth-floor windows are typical of modest Renaissance Revival commercial buildings of the period. The cornices were later removed, but the building otherwise survives largely intact, with apartments now on its upper floors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
A fly-trap maker, hat makers and a rowboat builder share 87 Crosby Street's lofts
The loft floors at 87 Crosby Street housed a changing run of small manufacturers. City records show Greenberg & Co., hat makers, here in 1907, the Magneto Fly Trap Co. in 1914, and a rowboat manufacturer in 1925. A milliner and a Venetian blind company followed in the 1930s, and by 1954 part of the building was a bar and grill, before the Art Student Showcase Gallery appeared by 1999.
“Greenberg & Co., hat makers (1907); the Magneto Fly Trap Co. (1914); a rowboat manufacturer (1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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