This is a vacant lot as of February 2025. It is anticipated that a new building will be constructed spanning this and the adjacent lots to the north, but plans have yet to be filed with the NYC Department of Buildings.
Demolished in 2024, the previous structure on this lot was once a pair of three-story buildings that had been conjoined. The two distinct storefronts were retained when the buildings were combined at the interior. The buildings were likely constructed in the 19th century, but their facades were later given a complete 20th-century makeover. From the late 19th century until sometime in the 1960s, a store called Sig Klein’s Fat Men’s Shop existed in the northern storefront (right). As evidenced by the tax photos, around the 1930s and ’40s Stuyvesant Loan Office was housed in the southern storefront (left). Prominent artists, including photographers Berenice Abbott, Ben Shahn, and Tony Marciante captured images of the Sig Klein’s shop, which had become a cultural landmark by the 1930s.
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