2 Fulton Street (Schermerhorn Row)

93 South Street | also 2 Fulton Street, 89 South Street | Financial District | built 1980

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1. 1850

   Albert Rogers opens a hotel at 2 Fulton Street, and in 1864 his employee Abraham Sweet takes it over

   A hotel at 2-4 Fulton Street was opened in 1850 by Albert Rogers. In 1864 his employee Abraham Sweet took it over, and it became Sweet's Hotel. Sweet's Seafood House reportedly opened at the same address in 1845 or 1847 and stayed for more than a century, with brief interruptions. Sea captains ate there, and in its early years it also hosted meetings of people involved in the slave trade.

   Source: Wikipedia

2. 1868

   John H. McKinley raises the building to six stories and opens a steamboat hotel

   In 1868 Nos. 92 and 93 South Street each gained two stories, going from four to six, and received a mansard roof with gabled dormers. The work was for John H. McKinley, who started a steamboat hotel at No. 93, also numbered 2 Fulton Street, that same year. By 1879 both buildings were part of the Fulton Ferry Hotel.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1930

   The hotel above Sweet's declines into a flophouse after the restaurant's operator refuses to take it on

   Larger ships began docking on the Hudson River in the late 19th century, because the East River was too shallow for them, and the hotels of Schermerhorn Row lost trade. By the 1930s the hotel at 93 South Street had turned into a flophouse; Charles Lake, who then ran Sweet's Seafood House, refused to take on responsibility for it. The Row's final boarding house closed in the 1940s.

   Source: Wikipedia

4. 1930

   Louis Morini takes over a rough eatery in the old Fulton Ferry Hotel and keeps its nickname, Sloppy Louie's

   Louis Morini, born in 1887 in Recco, Italy, waited tables for 25 years before buying the lease of a place at 92 South Street, part of the old Fulton Ferry Hotel, in 1930. Locals had nicknamed it Sloppy John's, and the fishmongers soon dubbed his version Sloppy Louie's. He gave in and adopted the name. The New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell wrote about Morini and the place in Up in the Old Hotel, and the restaurant closed in 1998.

   Source: thedailybeast.com

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