Brown = Labor union or society name
Green = Hall, theater or business name
58 E. 4th Street
1890s - Was a saloon owned by Max Gombossy
December, 1894 - Gombossy was arrested and sent to Essex Market Court for selling alcohol without a license. Harry Von Grundman ratted Gombossy out to police, but Grundman was drunk at the trial and ended up being arrested as well.
October 7, 1898 - one year old resident Max Schary passed away here
August 19, 1902 - one year old resident Celia Bradosky passed away here
1942 - Dr. Henry Hin-Cheung Cheng either lived or had an office here
1950 - Hebrew/Yiddish Theatre Chorus Union headquarters
1962 - William Sacunda, actor, president of the Yiddish Theatre Chorus Union, and brother of Yiddish composer Sholom Secunda (1894-1974), lived here
1974'-Present - Great Food Co-Op located here
1989 - Electric Eye Products Company located here
59-61 E. 4th Street
July 13, 1884 - boarding house, Liverpool, England immigrant Albert Goldsmith tried to commit suicide because he was "tired of life of poverty"
1889 - Called Victoria Hall
January 1889 - In January The Dry Goods Clerks' Early Closing and Benevolent Association held a meeting here to discuss closing at 7:00pm instead of 10:00pm. 122 of 132 local merchants obliged.
1889 - East Side Ladies' Aid Society for Widows and Orphans headquarters
1894 - Professional French musicians lived here; Jacques Blazer, Jules Conus, E. Rafer, J. Vandenberg
1894 - Kossuth Memorial Committee met here (61)
1898 - Israel lodge, visited by President of District 1, Adolph Hirsh on March 13
1898'-1906 - Called Leer's or Lear's Hall (61)
December 21, 1898 - Emma Goldman speaks at Lear's Hall, "The Power of the Idea" (61)
June 30, 1903 - 33 year old resident Joseph Siegal passes away (61)
1899 - Independent Labor Party met here (61)
1899 - Tennyson Literary Circle society met here every Saturday evening to discuss The Saturday Review for "healthy debating" which "does them good." ”(61)
1903 - Metamora Social Club located here, est. 1900; said to be composed of friends and members of Paul Kelly's Five Points gang. Members include John McKeon, eighteen years of age, and Antonio Platanio, twenty-three.
June 1905 - (61) sold; brokered by M. Kahn & Co to Jacob H. Rubin
September 10, 1904 - An unidentified man was presumably robbed and murdered on second floor of boarding house here run by Mrs. Tessie Probst. (61)
October 1906 - (61) Harris Meyer buys building
1906 - Karl Marx Co. met here (61)
1907 - Congregation of Agruath Achim Anshe Mishnitz met here (61)
May 29, 1908 - A fire at a fruit stand in front of 61 caused a responding fire truck Engine 25, "a new big machine," to lose control on the corner of 2nd avenue after hitting a patch of wet and uneven cobblestone. Driver John Ayres was nearly stomped to death by three horses pulling the engine, but was rescued. The truck was wrecked. (NY Times Article)
October 1909 - (61) sold; Steinman & Son sold to Strauss Construction Company
1937 - Ideal Slipper Company located here (61)
1938-1948 - Platers Technical Service, Inc. (metal finishing), announces "periodic reverse plating electronic relay timer"
1939 - (61) Home to The Astoria Press, book printers. Seem to print a lot of Jewish/Yiddish-themed books. In December 1939, owner Morris Sweder was accused of operating a "front" for the $10,000,000 narcotics ring allegedly controlled by Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, but walked out of Federal court yesterday a free man. (NY Times Article)
1942 - Institute of Electrochemistry and Metallurgy; offers specialized courses in electroplating and metallurgy
1953 - Rau Rubber Engraving Co located here
1959 - As part of city urban renewal plan, New York City takes ownership of several buildings on the street, including several theaters. Cooper Square Committee is founded as a small group of residents organized to oppose the City's Urban Renewal Plan (otherwise known as the City of New York's Slum Clearance plan)
1969 - Unit Process Assemblies factory located here (61)
1967 - Sterling Studios Inc located here
1978' - 2002' - Lower East Side Print Shop, 6th floor
1985 - WOW cafe theater moves in from 11th street location
1991 - Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company and Teatro IATI move in from previous home at Houston & 2nd Avenue.
2001 - Fourth Arts Block (FAB) is founded by 13 cultural and community groups to establish and advance the East 4th Street Cultural District, between 2nd Avenue and Bowery. City and Arts group officials begin meeting to discuss sales of the buildings for a nominal fee.
2007? - Present - feminist activist and writer Kate Millet resides here after being relocated by development on the Bowery.
62 E. 4th Street
1889 - built as a dance and catering hall by Victor Eckstein, who ran a restaurant at 64 East Fourth Street and lived in an old house at 62 East Fourth. In 1889, to replace his house, Eckstein had the architect Max Schroff design a combination structure with a restaurant on the basement and first floors, meeting rooms on the second and third floors, and living quarters for Eckstein on the fourth and fifth floors. patriotic composer John Phillips Souza will rehearse here and some of the first meetings to form a musicians union will be held here.
1892 - Golden Rod Wheelmen cycling club met here
1903 - Chasers' League of New York (metal workers) met here
1903 - Modelers' League met here
1903 - George Herwegh lodge of the Knights of Honor society met here
1903 - German Practical Engineers' Society met here
1903 - Land Wurster Club, German benefit association met here
1903 - Mensinger Verein, German benefit association met here
1903 - Verein Buer, German benefit association met here
1903 - Quackenbruecker Freundschaftsbund, German benefit association met here
1903 - Gesang Verein Schillerbund, German music society met here, est. 1850
1906 - Astoria Hall was here (see picture)
1906 - Metropolitan Assembly Room was here
1906 - Barbarossa, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - Moltke lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
1906 - Mendelssohn lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1907 - Branch 72 of the American Jewish Historical Society met here
1907 - Zgierzer Benevolent Association met here (German)
1907 - Cap Blockers Union met here
1907 - Cap Operators Union met here
1907 - Cap Trimming Makers union met here
1907 - Cap Lining Makers Union met here
1913 - United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers Union of North America headquarters
1913 - International Fir Trimmers union met here
1913 - Deutsche Bundes Society of Deutscher Orden der Harugari met here (German)
1913 - Vespri Siciliani met here (Italian)
1913 - Il Sole met here (Italian)
1913 - Lercara Friddi met here (Italian)
1913 - Ind. Lipkauer (Jewish) association met here
1913 - American Progressive association (Jewish) met here
1930 - Converts to theater, The Astor Playhouse
1958 - Royal Playhouse theater occupies this building
1960s - Renamed Theater 62
1960s - Fortune Theater on second floor
1960s - Andy Warhol rents the 150 seat Fortune Theater, placing Gerard Malanga as manager and Jim Carroll as co-manager. Together the group put on a series of hardcore male porn films in what was called Andy Warhol's Theater: Boys to Adore Galore.
1973 - Francis Ford Coppola shoots Italian Operetta scene from Godfather: Part II in the 2nd floor theater (watch scene )
1981 - Rod Rogers, Duo Theater, and New York Theater Ensemble moves in
64 E. 4th Street
January 6, 1880 - a fire strikes 64, 66, and 68 E 4th St. Ten people are killed. Damage sustained to Primary School No. 6 located at No's 15 and 17 East Third Street which abuts Turn Hall. (NY Times Article)
1894 - Socialists and Central Labor Federation headquarters
April 28, 1894 - 20,000 men and 500 women assemble here for a parade through the area which ended at Union Square. Organized by the Central labor Federation.
May 20, 1895 - Women's Branch of the Socialist-Labor Party formed here
1899 - Diamond Workers Union headquarters
1900' - Labor Lyceum Hall
1900 - International Ladies Garment Workers Union founded at the Labor Lyceum Hall.
May 1, 1901 - Thousands of laborers meet here for parade to Madison Square, organized by CLF and the Social-Democratic Party.
June 1901 - Sausage Makers' Union headquarters
1902 - Cigar Makers International Union of America met here
July 23, 1903 - Mary Harris, better known as Mother Jones, famous socialist labor activist organized hundreds of textile workers at this location, then marched up to Madison Square. (NY Times Article)
1903 - International Brotherhood of Bookbinders met here
1903 - Electrotypers' Union, No 1 met here
1903 - Boiler Pipe Coverers of NY met here
1903 - Amaglamated Wood Workers' International met here, 122 members
1903 - Coopers' international Union met here
1903 - Upholsters' International Union met here
1903 - Cigar Makers' Progressive International met here
1903 - Bricklayers' and Masons' International union met here
1903 - Brotherhood of painters' Union met here, 442 members
1903 - United Engineers No.1 met here
1903 - Amalgamated Meat Cutters' and Butchers Workmen met here, 174 members
1903 - Slate and Tile Roofers met here
1903 - Amalgamated Society of Engineer Machinists met here, 585 members
1903 - Electrotypers Union No. 1 met here
1906 - General Shields-Corcoran Society met here
August 12, 1909 - Emma Goldman was scheduled to speak here, but hall owner changed his mind at the last minute. The speech was moved to 206 E. Broadway.
1909 - Called Metropolitan Palace Hall
1911 - Called Manhattan Casino
April 8, 1911 - Anarchist Red Cross Society hold dance here, 500 attend.
March 19, 1914 - Resident Berthold Litchwick is attacked during an attempted robbery in the first floor hallway here during a large labor riot in Cooper Square. The riot started when a group of 300 interrupted a Socialist symposium at Cooper Union. (NY Times Article)
1930 - Called Astoria Hall
1931' - 2nd floor referred to as "Hobo College"
1983 - 1996 - The Paradise Factory (aka Choices Theatre Project), founded by award winning actor and director Tom Noonan, occupies the building
1990 - Downtown Art moves into 64 E. 4th street. By 1994, DTA had produced 19 original experimental theater works, often incorporating music, dance and video animation, which were presented in New York City' s preeminent alternative theaters such as Performance Space 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, the Performing Garage, as well as toured nationally.
1993 - Get Smart/Ad Hoc theater group occupied space in building
1995 - $1 million dollar renovation
Currently home to Paradise Factory, Teatro Circulo, and Teatro IATI
66-68 E. 4th Street
1871 - Called Turn Halle (hall). These buildings were bought by the New York Turn Verein, a German-American Society, est. in America in 1849. This building was actually once two separate buildings, with the second building (facing E. 3rd street) built as early as the 1850s. (See picture)
January 6, 1880 - a fire strikes 64, 66, and 68 E 4th St. Ten people are killed. Damage sustained to Primary School No. 6 located at No's 15 and 17 East Third Street which abuts Turn Hall. (NY Times Article)
1882 - A Frightful Dream, and Abraham Golfaden's Koldunya ("The Witch") debut at Turn Hall. This marks the first entirely Yiddish theatrical production in American history. Golfaden went on to be known as the "father of Yiddish theater." Turn Hall also presents Italian-American works until 1905.
January 31, 1887 - The Eleventh Regiment fife and drum corps of the National Guard held a ball here
1898 - Samuel Jacobs purchases 64, 66, and 17 e.3rd from Gustave L. Morgenthau and leases it to Meyer R. Bimburg.
1898 - Turn Verein moves out
1903' - 1956 Manhattan Lyceum Hall located here
1906' - Alexander Berkman attends the Conference of the Unemployed here
October 30, 1906 - Emma Goldman was prepared to speak here but was arrested along with 10 others during opening remarks. Goldman was arrested on "criminal anarchy" charges for distributing a copy of Mother Earth magazine which commemorated the fifth anniversary of Leon Czolgosz's execution (the man who assassinated President McKinley). Charges were dropped by a grand jury in 1907. (Book reference)
November 11, 1907 - Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman speak here (see poster)
1903 - Catholic Benevolent Legion, Nativity society located here, 374 members
1903 - Cloth Hat and Cap Cutters' Union met here (68)
1913 - Patternmakers Association met here (68)
1913 - Italian Calatafimi society met here
1913 - Italian Filodrammatica Racalmuto met here
March 1913 - Paddock A.C. Boxing club founded here
1925-1937 - the Ukrainian Labor Home socialist club headquartered here
1930s - Black Bottom nightclub located here (68)
October 31, 1930 - gangsters "Cowboy Larry" Viscordi and Charles Grecco are gunned down here at the Black Bottom night club (68) (NY Times article)
1938 - N. Stoller, who renamed the theatre the Manhattan Plaza and turned it into a catering facility and dance hall. In 1942 these activities were suspended and the space was turned into temporary housing during the war. Catering resumed in the building after the war until 1955
1954 - Biltmore Productions Corps located at this address
1956 - Manhattan Lyceum renamed the Biltmore Studios, later to be called ABC Stage City. Many movies were filmed here such as Cop Hater (1958), which gave Jerry Orbach his first credited role in film, Mad Dog Coll (1961) with Jerry Orbach and Telly Savalas, Coogan' s Bluff (1968) starring Clint Eastwood, the Oscar-nominated Hester Street (1975), as well as the two popular police drama television series Naked City (1958-63) and N.Y.P.D. (1967-69). The film studio left the space around 1971. The building fell into disrepair and was slated by the city for demolition.
1974 - The Carlos Perez Community Center, LaMama Experimental Theatre and Millennium Film Workshop move in.
1974 - Creative Time is founded
70 E. 4th Street
1868 - The Office of Asylum and Secretary headquarters. Mission was the support of orphans and neglected children, mostly German.
1883 - Offices of St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum
1887 - First Hungarian Schutzenbund headquartered here, 800 members
August 1, 1887 - 250 First Hungarian Schutzenbund calvary men and sharpshooters battled Brommer's corps of German infantry with guns and swords in Harlem. The battle lasted 20 minutes, dozens injured and 23 arrested. (NY Times article)
Nov 30, 1888 - The annual meeting of the Society of the Sixth Regiment, Infantry, New-York Volunteers, was held here
1889 - The Aschenbroedel Verein, German musician society met here
1901' - Known as Ruppiner's Hall
1903 - Ancient Order of United Workmen, Pomerania Society headquarters, 358 members
1903 - Dora Kupfer lodge of Knights and Ladies of the Golden Star society met here
1903 - Mornin Start lodge of Knights and Ladies of the Golden Star society met here
1903 - Loreley lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor society met here, 845 members
1903 - Independent lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor society met here, 1493 members
1903 - William Gebhardt lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor society met here
1903 - Barbarossa lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor society met here, 1034 members
1903 - Harmonie lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor society met here, 954 members
1903 - Heimath lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor society met here, 1375 members
1903 - United Garment Workers of America (overall coat and pants makers) met here
1903 - Cranks Society met here, est 1898
1903 - Humor Society met here, est 1895
1906 - Called Ruppiner Hall
1906 - St. Nicholas and University Associations of the Catholic Benevolent Legion met here
1906 - Ancient Order of United Workmen met here
1906 - Gerard Society, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - J. L. Riker Society met here
1906 - Naval Society, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - St. Bernard Society, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - Hermann Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - Charles Dickens Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - George Washington lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - Thomas Wildey lodge met here
1906 - Andreas Hofer lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - Lebrecht Uhlig lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows met here
1906 - Lady Washington Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
1906 - Louisen Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
1906 - Thusnelda lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
1913 - Schwaebiescher Rrauenbund met here
1914 - A paper factory was located here
December 15, 1914 - 49 year old Joseph Albert, a paper box manufacturer at this location was arrested to trying to start a fire in the basement and held in Essex Market Court.
1979 - Offices of Department of Housing Preservation and Development
72 E. 4th Street
1868 - PS 19 administrator Sarah E. Buckabee lived here
January 8, 1885 - NY Times reports that Hungarian boarder Frank Pankuk was shot in the chest here after refusing his younger brother money. Pankuk was taken to Bellevue hospital, not clear if he survived.
July 6, 1900 - 18 year old resident Almine Schroeler passes away
November 20, 1901 - 15 year old resident Josepha R. Walfschlag passes away here
March 9, 1902, 55 year old resident Louis Dayrolle passes away
1903 - Concordia Hall located here
June 15, 1917 - 24 year old resident Benjamin Anapole was arrested during a riot at Arlington Hall, along with dozens of others, for not having draft papers. (NY Times Article)
1917 - W. Leon Braunstein Memorial met here, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays
1977'-195' - United Artists occupied space here, published a poetry magazine out of 9-B
1983 - Trace Element Records. Music retailer
74 E. 4th Street
1876 - A Saloon owned by Eugene Breham
1889 - The Aschenbroedel Verein headquarters
1895 - Gesang Verein Schiller Bund headquarters
1901 - Known as Krywaczy's Hall, mostly polish societies
1903 - Saenger Hall located here
1903 - McKinley Hall also here
November 6, 1903 - Dozens of East Side restaurant owners gather at McKinley Hall to protest increase in pie sales by the American Pastry and Manufacturing Company
1905 - Newsboys Athletic Club headquarters
November 1905 - S. Steingut & Company sold this building for Whitehall Realty Company
1911 - New System Laundry Company was located here. On April 1, store safe was robbed of $100
1914' - Called Floral Garden
May 1914 - Alexander Berkman and others are involved in a street row when the ILGWU is not allowed by the owner to hold a meeting here.
1969' - Cafe La Mama, former meat packing plant according to NY Times
1970 - La Mama Theater moves to this location
October 18, 1974 LaMaMa opens the doors of their large theatre, the La MaMa Annex, with the complete trilogy of Electra, Trojan Women, and Medea directed by Andrei Serban, with music composed by Elizabeth Swados, performed by the La MaMa Repertory Troupe (now called The Great Jones Repertory Company).
1993 - LaMaMA founder Ellen Stewart was inducted into the "Broadway Theatre Hall of Fame", becoming the first Off-Off-Broadway Producer to ever receive this honor.
1994 - Ellen Stewart was awarded the "Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette" by the Emperor of Japan. She also received the Human Rights Award of the Philippines from President Corazon Aquino.
79 E. 4th Street
1872 - Housed a music store which manufactured and sold instruments
1893 - Served as a meeting hall and boarding house as early as this date.
December, 1893 - A boarder here took her child and left her husband to move to England with an actor. (NY Times Article)
December 12, 1894 - Mostly German coachmen gathered here to consider forming a club. (NY Times Article)
1895 - Badischer Volksfest Verei headquarters (NY Times Article with images)
1903 - United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of N.A.L.U. met here
1903 - Beethoven Doppel Quartet met here, German music society met here
1903 - The German Practical Engineer Society met here
1906 - Society Hall was here
1906 - Deutscher Kriegerbund Frauen Verein, a German war veteran society, met here
1906 - Deutsch-Amerikanischer Shuetzenbund headquarters
1906 - Damen Verien Brunhilde social club met here
1911 - Deutscher Kriegerbund Frauen Verein headquarters
1917 - Custom Tailor's Local 162 (A.C.W.A.) headquarters
1920 - NY Joint Board of Amaglamated Clothing WOrkers of America headquarters
1969 - Phebe's restaurant owner Bruce Mailman and partner Albert Poland purchase building, open Truck and Warehouse Theater.
1971 - During the New York Drama Critics Circle Award winning (Best Play of 1970-1971) production of John Guare' s House of Blue Leaves at Truck & Warehouse, a suspicious fire ravages the stage, heavily damaging the theatre and destroying the sets and costumes. The theatre was closed until 1972.
1972 - Truck & Warehouse theater reopens with the production of Tennessee Willaims' Small Craft Warnings starring one of Andy Warhol's famous muses, Candy Darling.
1972 - The Chicago Project/New York theater group occupied the building
1992 - New York Theater Workshop buys building, moves in
January 26, 1996 - Jonathan Larson's Rent premiered here
82 E. 4th Street
July 17, 1868 - Resident John H. Waterhouse, a broker who worked at 351-1/2 Bowery, was followed home and brazenly robbed of $1200 here by the "butcher-cart thieves." (NY Times Article)
1895 - A physician named Dr. Leo Theodore Meyer practiced medicine here.
July 30, 1898 - 50 year old resident Alphonse Biondi passed away.
1901 - University of the State of New York professor, S. D. McCormick, lived here.
1914 - Hat and Cap Makers No. 30 (trimmers, women) headquarters
1958-1978 - Legendary drag cabaret the 82 Club was located here, on the southwest corner of 4th st and 2nd Avenue. Ty Bennett becomes the headliner and 'den mother' . A favorite hangout of Harvey Fierstein, 82 Club makes cameo appearances in both Torch Song Trilogy (which premiered at La Mama) and The Rose. (Club 82 fan site) (Watch torch Song Trilogy scene)
By the 1960s and 70s, Club 82 became a popular hang out for celebrities and glam rockers like David Bowie, Lou Reed . The Stilettos (the precursor to Blondie) performed here during this time..
1971-1973 - The Players Workshop, under the direction of Clay Stevenson, occupied the building
April 17, 1974, the New York Dolls performed at Club 82.
August 19, 1974, the New York Dolls second performance at the club is interrupted by police who arrested the club managers for overcrowding.
83 E. 4th Street
1872 - Yale alumni Robert M. Gallaway lived here
1872 - Young Women's Aid Association home for girls
1880s - Named Steckler Association Hall
October 28, 1882 - A meeting of the Committee of One Hundred appointed to name candidates for Assemblyman and Alderman in the Tenth Assembly District was held in the rooms of the Steckler Association
February 11, 1885 - 16 year old resident Maria Probanska commits suicide here by drinking poison (NY Times Article)
1890s - A saloon owned by Frederick Bingle was located here.
December 1892 - Bingle was arrested, along with 4 other local saloon owners, for selling beer and whiskey without a license. (NY Times Article)
1906 - Paul Orlenoff, head of a Russian acting troupe lived here.
1913 - Young Men's Educational League headquarters. Conducted public lectures for moral, social, and intellectual improvements" of members.
1914 - Buccacser lodge of the Independent order of Free Sons of Judah association met here
1920?-1940s? Was called Royal Hall
1921 - The Unemployment Council met here
1934 - 12,000 cabbies strike against city tax increase, one of the city-wide meetings took place here.
1937 - The Workmen's Circle Chorus rehearsed here
1940s - Eia Lampe's craft studio was located here
1948 - The Royal restaurant was located here
1954 - Became home to the 4th Street Theater, the first in a long line of theatrical companies that would occupy the space. The founder David Ross puts on his first production, S. Ansky' s The Dybbuk.
1960s - Known as the 4th Street Theater
1964 - Named Writers Stage Theater
March 14, 1964 - Police raid Writers Stage Theater and close it down during a screening of Genet's Chant d'amour
1964 - a Film Makers Cooperative of New York screening here in mid-March featured an Andy Warhol film. (Warhol was in attendance)
1960s - also known as "Filmmakers Market"
1965 - Atelier East Gallery located here
1965-1969 - New Dramatists (a group to encourage new playwrights sponsored by Edward Albee, Richard Barr and Charles Woodward) occupies the building
1972 - The Playwrights Unit occupied this building
1973-1983 - Wonderhouse Theater occupies building
1975-1980 - Mabou Mines theater company occupied the building
1983-1986 - Terry Schrieber Studios occupied the building
1997 - Known as the Fourth Street Theater
85 E.4th Street
1871 - The Boarding House for Sewing Women headquarters
1872 - Young Women's Aid Society headquarters
1890s - Known as Wilzig's Hall/Saloon, an anarchist hang out
1892 - International Workingmen's Association met here; active members include Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
1892 - New York Federation of Labor met here
July 21, 1892 - Emma Goldman spoke here, saying she deplored the fact that H. C. Frick was not instantly killed in the assassination attempt by Alexander Berkman. (book reference)
July 9, 1893 - Lillian Payne beaten by husband at 37 E.4th, she runs to 85 to seek help, but collapses and dies from her wounds. (NY Times Article)
1903 - United Brewery Workman, lodge 30 met here
1903 - Eccentric Association of Brewery Engineers met here, 226 members
1903 - Journeymen Brewers' National Union met here
1903 - International Association of Machinists met here, 335 members
1903 - Cigar Makers' International Union met here
1904 - Brewers' Firemen union met here
1904 - Brewers' Union executive board met here
1906 - Volkshalla Hall
July 31, 1910 - Herman Liebowitz, a strike-breaker, was lured here by the Cloakmakers Union members, then beaten to death in the street. Max Singer was charged with luring Liebowitz to the "meeting" (NY Times Article)
1911 - Known as Casino Hall
1913 - National Association of Heat, Frost, General Insulators and Asbestos Workers of America met here.
1913 - Animal Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen of America met here
1913 - Human Hair Workers Union of Greater NY met here
1920s - Lucky Luciano's Palm Casino on second floor; hangout for Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello
1940s - Ukrainian Labor Home buys building; first floor known as the Great Hall; and a speakeasy on the second floor
1950s - The Downtown Theater
1960s - The East End Theater, works by Diane DiPrima, Leroi Jones, Frank O'Hara
1960s - Fluxus artists Cinemateque occupied building
1962 - Alan Marlowe's New York Poets Theater begins producing plays here
1964 - The Fugs perform at East End Theater
1970s - renamed The Red Room
1970s - Ukrainian American league headquarters
1990 - National Council of American-Soviet Friendship headquarters
1993-present - KGB bar, purchased from Kraine Gallery Bar, Ukrainian Labor Home.
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