Affixed to a cast-iron building at 145 Duane Street is this faded beauty. The building used to house the Nathaniel Fisher Company, wholesale shoe dealers described in an 1894 New York Times article as one of “the oldest shoe firms in America.”
A fire that year gutted the building and caused $40,000 worth of damage. The clock looks like it was damaged then too.
Tags: Duane Street, Nathaniel Fisher & Company, New York City outdoor clocks, old businesses in 19th century New York City, street clocks in New York
March 1, 2010 at 1:44 am |
Intersting, I have an old wooden shipping crate with “Nath’L Fisher & Company” on it – found it in the attic of our house in Hackettstown NJ – always wondered what was shipped in it.
October 10, 2011 at 3:46 am |
[...] New York City is filled with lovely decorative sidewalk clocks—some standing tall on the street, others hinged to a building. [...]