New York Hospital stable and laundry

9 Jay Street | also 2 Staple Street | Tribeca | built 1908

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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. 1905

    April

    New York Hospital buys a lot where an earlier house held a boarding house and restaurant

    The New York Hospital purchased the site at 9 Jay Street from the Edward C. Center estate in April 1905. An older three-story house stood there, where Margaret M. Krekeler had run a boarding house and restaurant in the 1870s. The hospital planned an annex behind its downtown House of Relief, and hired Robertson & Potter to design it.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1907

    The hospital's ambulance stable and laundry opens, linked to the hospital by a street bridge

    Completed in 1907, the orange brick annex was based essentially on a firehouse design. Horses were groomed and fed and ambulances maintained on the ground floor, while workers laundered hospital linens upstairs. An overhead bridge across Staple Street joined the annex to the House of Relief so laundry could be carried across without going outside, and a terra-cotta cartouche carries the New York Hospital monogram.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1919

    October 25

    The federal government acquires the hospital buildings, including this stable

    On October 25, 1919 The Sun reported that the government had acquired the downtown New York Hospital facility, and the sale included 9 Jay Street. The Public Health Service used the buildings for years. By the 1990s the hospital building held medical offices while the old stable was used for manufacturing.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1998

    The former stable and laundry becomes a single-family home

    In 1998 the building was converted into a single-family residence. The original bay doors were replaced with modern ones, but the building is otherwise largely intact, including the Staple Street bridge. A mid-1990s clothing maker here had been sued by the U.S. government over labeling violations before the conversion.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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