90 Thompson Street

also 92 Thompson Street | SoHo | built 1913

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

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1913
Dominick Abbate, a former newsboy, builds 90 Thompson Street through his company
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The Citizens Investing Company, headed by Dominick Abbate, put up five glazed white brick tenements on Sullivan and Thompson Streets between 1911 and 1914, among them 90-92 Thompson Street in 1913. Abbate was an Italian immigrant who began work as a newsboy at nine, studied at night school and went on to found his own real estate business. The landmarks commission reads his projects here as a sign of the rise of the neighborhood's Italian-American community, by then its largest group.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
Louis Sheinart designs a six-story white-glazed brick tenement at 90-92 Thompson Street
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Architect Louis A. Sheinart drew this six-story new-law building for the Citizens Investing Company in 1913, one of five H-plan tenements he designed in the district between 1911 and 1914. Its facade is white-glazed brick with flat stone sills and lintels and a recessed cross pattern above the sixth floor. The entrance keeps cast-iron piers, a semicircular transom with a radial pattern and sidelights, and the fire escape has scrolled metal details.
“Sheinart built this and four other tenements in the district between 1911-1914; each is a white-glazed brick H-plan building.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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