88 Bleecker Street

also 206 Mercer Street, 639 Broadway, 208 Mercer Street | NoHo | built 1959

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

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1843
The Primitive Christian Congregation is dated 1843 at 639 Broadway, on today's apartment-house lot
The landmarks report on the NoHo district dates the Primitive Christian Congregation to 1843 at 639 Broadway, within the lot now occupied by the apartment house at 637-641 Broadway and 88 Bleecker Street. It was one of several churches that arrived along Broadway and Lafayette Place in the 1830s and 1840s, as the neighborhood gained churches, schools and libraries.
“…the Primitive Christian Congregation (1843) at 639 Broadway…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1959
H.I. Feldman designs a six-story apartment house for the Mercer Apartment Corp. in 1959
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The Mercer Apartment Corp. built this six-story apartment house, with stores at street level, to designs by H.I. Feldman. It stands at the southwest corner of Broadway and Bleecker Street and replaced four nineteenth-century commercial buildings. The landmarks report calls it the first new apartment house built within the NoHo Historic District, at a time when older loft buildings nearby were being torn down for parking lots and new residential and institutional buildings.
“…constructed in 1959 for the Mercer Apartment Corp. during a time when many of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century loft buildings…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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