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NYC Seal © Frank H. Jump
Grutchfield mentions this building having ” a “vintage” sign that is carved in stone….on West Broadway between Beach and Franklin streets.” According to a gentleman on last week’s Fading Ads of TriBeCa Walking Tour, this was done in a time when there was so much pollution, the building and sign could be power-washed.
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American Thread Company, 260 West Broadway at Beach St., New York, 2005
In 1901 the New York Times (16 May 1901, p. 12) reported the prospective sale of the Wool Exchange Building at West Broadway and Beach Street. The American Thread Company “or interests closely associated with it” was mentioned as the prospective purchaser. The American Thread Company was already a tenant of three floors in the building, which was described as “an eleven-story structure at the northwest corner of West Broadway and Beach Street, 75.5 by 96.3, extending around on St. John’s Lane at the rear, where it has a frontage of 141.8 feet. It was put up about 1895, primarily to afford suitable quarters for the Wool Exchange and for the now defunct Tradesmen’s National Bank… The banking room is now occupied by the recently organized Varick Bank. The Wool Club has elaborately fitted up rooms on one of the upper floors, and part of the street floor is occupied as a Post Office sub-station.” – Walter Grutchfield
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Standard Scale & Supply were a Pittsburgh company with branches in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York & Dallas. In 1901 they were listed among companies that had been in business in New York for 50 years or more. They were located at 136 West Broadway from 1900 to 1915. – Walter Grutchfield
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IN 1894, New York Hospital built the House of Relief, a downtown clinic, on Jay from Hudson to Staple, with an ambulance entrance facing Staple. In that year The New York Herald noted that the hospital was sending its ambulance out as often as seven times a day, sometimes on emergencies involving sunstroke, ”which so often occurs in the lower part of the city,” perhaps because of the large number of men working outdoors on the docks.
In 1907 the hospital built an annex across Staple Street (replacing the saloon/row house at Jay and Staple) as a stable and laundry, connecting it at the third-floor level using a pedestrian bridge. Although Staple Street was then just an industrial alley, the hospital had the architects Robertson & Potter design a handsome little building with a terra cotta plaque bearing the ”NYH” monogram on the Staple Street side. The monogram is still there. – Christopher Gray, NY Times – February 18, 2001
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