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Private Label Industrial Maintenance Chemicals REVISITED – M. Blumberg – Bushwick, Brooklyn

Feb 5th, 2014

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I believe this building at 395 Johnson Avenue was originally the home of Max Blumberg’s lumber and millwork business. He emigrated from Russia in the late 1800s and started a sash and door factory on Humboldt St in addition to building apartments. His fortune was wiped out in the business depression of 1907 but he recovered and at some point erected the building on Johnson Street. Blumberg was active in Jewish philanthropies and died at the age of 58 in 1938. His biography is available online at the link:
http://thehistorybox.com/ny_city/nycity_bklyn_businessmen_pre_1925_article00713.htm

Another photo of the building is available online at the link
http://www.donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/h0072.htm. This photo shows some interesting architectural details and brickwork on the ends of the building. At the time this picture was taken in 2003, ADAR Imports occupied the building. Now it is apparently used by the Nationwide Chemical Co., Inc., a distributor of specialty cleaning, polishing and sanitation preparations. – Robert Baptista – Colorants Industry History

Previously on FAB:

Private Label Industrial Maintenance Chemicals – Bushwick, Brooklyn – Aug 18th, 2008

Broadloom Carpets Revisited – Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn

Jan 16th, 2014

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Previously posted on FAB – October 3, 2007

Estey Bros Revisited – Bushwick, Brooklyn

Jan 4th, 2014

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Formerly Featured on FAB: Estey Brothers Company – Bronze, Iron Wire Works – Bushwick, Brooklyn – Nov 7th, 2011

Fletcher’s Castoria – Broadway – Bushwick, Brooklyn

Dec 13th, 2013

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Broadway Sleep Mart – Furniture Manufacturing – Bushwick, Brooklyn

Dec 9th, 2013

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Saturated & Grayscaled – Split & Stacked © Frenzo

This sign looks pre-1950s © Vincenzo Aiosa

Above the lower left window you can see the word ‘furniture’ in turn-of-the-century fonts © Vincenzo Aiosa

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Vincenzo took the shots above on Park Avenue just south of Broadway with his iPhone. So this is my theory. From the look of the fonts and the weathering, the signs written on the brick between the windows are clearly very early 20th-century (c.1910). My guess is the sign for Broadway Sleep Mart can be anywhere from 1930’s to 1940’s. I’m going to assume that the proprietors conducted their business at the Park Avenue location for several decades and then outgrew their space and moved up the street on Broadway. The public records above show the address at 835 Broadway with an incorporation of 1956 – up the street a bit in a larger space, now a laundromat. Vincenzo also points out that the Park Avenue location may have been maintained as a warehouse. I’m also inferring from these records that in 1962, they changed the name of the store.