420 West Broadway

94 Thompson Street | also 420 West Broadway | SoHo | built 1871

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

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1971
Ileana Sonnabend moves her gallery to 420 West Broadway
In 1971 dealer Ileana Sonnabend moved her New York gallery into this building, whose industrial-style renovation quickly made it the center of SoHo's emerging art scene. She opened with a performance by Gilbert & George, and in 1972 Vito Acconci staged his performance Seedbed in the gallery. Sonnabend kept the space until 2000, when she moved to West 22nd Street in Chelsea.
Source: Wikipedia
1999
Leo Castelli's gallery ends 28 years at 420 West Broadway with a Rauschenberg show
Leo Castelli's gallery showed art at 420 West Broadway from 1971 to 1999. Its early exhibitions here included Bruce Nauman from December 1971 and Cy Twombly in early 1972, and its last show in the building, Robert Rauschenberg: Arcadian Survey, ran in January and February 1999.
Source: castelligallery.com

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