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Coy, Disbrow & Co., 686 Greenwich St. at Christopher St., New York, 2001 |  |
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The sign says "Coy Disbrow & Co. Inc. Paper."
Robert H. Coy and Hamilton T. Disbrow were wholesale paper and twine dealers. They had both worked for Coy, Hunt & Co. (another wholesale paper company) from its inception in 1898 until they founded Coy, Disbrow in 1922. The partners both died in the same year, 1942, Coy aged 65 and Disbrow 89. When he died, Disbrow had become known as the "dean of commuters" of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, having traveled almost daily to New York from his home in New Jersey on this line for more than seventy years. The business was originally located on Canal Street (click here for ad from 1922/23) and moved to Greenwich St. in 1930. Lloyd Acker made this beautiful photograph of Coy, Disbrow at its 686 Greenwich St. location during the 1940s(?). The company became a division of Pohlman Paper Co. in 1959, and then relocated to Lafayette St. in 1968, when it became part of the George W. Millar Co. The shadow is the steeple of St. Veronica's Catholic church (founded 1887) on Christopher St. |
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