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This required demolishing Namm's original store at 452 Fulton Street and the adjoining Huyler and Liggett stores. [57] [58] The plans involved building a nine-story building on Fulton Street, measuring 90 feet (27 m) wide, [56] as well as a 15-story tower with setbacks behind it. Work on the nine-story section was to begin first, in May 1924 ...
Description: The A. I. Nammm & Son Department Store building at 450-458 Fulton Avenue at the corner of Hoyt Street in the Civic Center area of Brooklyn, New York City was built in 1924-25 and 1929-29 and was designed by Robert D. Kohn and Charles Butler.
Fulton Center is a subway and retail complex centered at the intersection of Fulton Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The complex was built as part of a $1.4 billion project by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public agency of the state of New York, to rehabilitate the New York City Subway's Fulton Street station.
The Macy's store at 422 Fulton Street was originally Abraham & Straus's flagship store. The building was designed in Art Deco style by Starrett & Van Vleck and built in 1933. [ 18 ] It was formerly the showroom for the W.C. Vosburgh Mfg. Co. [ 19 ] As of 2017, the building is undergoing a $194 million renovation by Tishman Speyer .
1800s-The store was founded in 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, as Wechsler & Abraham by Joseph Wechsler and Abraham Abraham.In 1893, the Straus family (including Isidor Straus and Nathan Straus), who acquired a general partnership with Macy's department stores in 1888, bought out Joseph Wechsler's interest in Wechsler & Abraham and changed the store's name to Abraham & Straus.
The original store was situated at 277 Fulton Street, roughly a block from Brooklyn Borough Hall. The company grew relatively quickly, buying out competitors and partners. [2] In 1870 the company opened a larger second store near the present-day intersection of Fulton Street and Boerum Place. [3]
The South Street Seaport on Fulton Street on a December afternoon. Fulton Street is a busy street located in Lower Manhattan in New York City.Located in the Financial District, a few blocks north of Wall Street, it runs from West Street at the site of the World Trade Center to South Street, terminating in front of the South Street Seaport.
The Offerman Building is a historic building at 503–513 Fulton Street in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City.Designed by Danish architect Peter J. Lauritzen in a Romanesque Revival style, the eight-story building was built between 1890 and 1892 as a commercial structure, housing the S. Wechsler & Brother department store.