Armeny Building

90 Nassau Street | also 124 Fulton Street | Financial District | built 1900

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

1. 1888

   Saloon keeper Frank Raub commissions a six-story office building from De Lemos & Cordes

   Frank Raub, who ran a saloon near the Brooklyn Bridge and dabbled in real estate, bought the small buildings at Nassau and Fulton in 1888 and hired De Lemos & Cordes. The result was a six-story buff brick building with limestone and terra cotta trim and cast iron window frames, with a cafe and restaurant on the ground floor and offices above. The Real Estate Record expected completion about November 1889.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1890

   Gold pen makers Armeny & Marion move in, and Gyulo Armeny later buys the building

   Armeny & Marion, makers of high-end gold pens, moved to 90 Nassau Street in 1890. Gyulo Armeny, an Austro-Hungarian immigrant, and Kentucky-born William Clayborn Marion had formed the firm in 1884. In 1893 Armeny bought the building from Raub and renamed it for himself, while Raub kept his saloon at street level. That year architect A. L. C. Marsh added two floors.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1894

   June 28

   A tenant watch dealer tells the Times he wants Catholics driven out

   Charles D. P. Gibson, a watch dealer in the building, had served in the Civil War and spent about 25 years with the Secret Service. The New York Times of June 28, 1894 reported that he was an officer of the American Protective Association, a society organized against Catholics, and quoted his extreme statements about driving Catholics out of the country.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1920

   March 9

   An 800-pound flagpole base crashes onto the rush-hour sidewalk

   On March 9, 1920, at about 5 p.m., workers were lifting an 800-pound cast iron flagpole base into place high above the Nassau Street sidewalk when the rigging snapped. A shouted warning let the crowd scatter before the base broke into large fragments in the street. Only three people were injured. Gyulo Armeny, the owner, was ill at home and died a month later.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

5. 1925

   December 23

   Whittemore gang members rob a jewelry manufacturer two days before Christmas

   Folmer Pripp, a jewelry manufacturer, was robbed two days before Christmas in 1925 by stepbrothers Jacob and Leon Kraemer and a gunman, Milton "Shuffles" Goldberg. All three belonged to the Whittemore gang, and newspapers called Goldberg the closest lieutenant of its leader, Richard Reese Whittemore. A year later Goldberg was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in Sing Sing.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1888 Armeny Building -- No. 90 Nassau StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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