258 Broadway

I found this very interesting article (interesting to me, anyway!) of our building. It dates back to the 1890's and it's amazing to see photo's of broadway - and the building - from way back then. If you have 5 minutes, take a read. It talks of the history of the building (then called 260 broadway), tells of how it was burnt down, talks of secret tunnels that were the start of the NY subway system and of the re-build. Love it. Read it here

Someone in the building has left an article in our lobby that also tells of the history, in particular, that it is the site of the very first Tiffany & Co before it moved to Wall Street. (Of course, now it's uptown and has just placed a second branch at Wall Street in the last few months). This article doesn't mention any of this Tiffany talk. Not sure if it's true or not.

Some suitably old-fashioned pictures accompany this post. On the first one, our building is in the far distance (look for the two figures crossing the street to see where our building is). the Second is an illustration of the building on fire, the third, just a pit and the last one is a current view from the roof. I should have found one of the building as it looks now - will have to add that later.