Tuesday, July 13, 2021 – A building with an interesting history

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TUESDAY, JULY  14, 2021

The

414th Edition

From  the Archives

THE LOFT’S CANDY 

FACTORY

JUST ACROSS THE RIVER

Biography Loft with his wife c. 1922 He was born in New York City on February 6, 1865 to English immigrant William Loft (1828-1919),[2] 1860 founder of Loft, Inc. candymakers. Loft attended the public schools. He gained considerable wealth in the candy manufacturing business and expanded into retailing, banking, and real estate.

His first wife Elizabeth M. Loft died in 1910.[3] Loft remarried in 1911 to Julia McMahon whom he met when she was a salesclerk working at his store at 54 Barclay Street in New York. The couple made their home in Baldwin, New York on Long Island. On May 12, 1921, Julia Loft was appointed an honorary Deputy Police Commissioner for the City of New York and announced she would be active in her position and would fulfill her duties on a full-time basis.

A member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, Loft was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the 1906 death of Timothy D. Sullivan. He was reelected in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress and served from November 4, 1913, to March 3, 1917. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1916.

In 1923, the City of New York honored him by naming one of its Staten Island Ferry boats the George W. Loft.

He formed George W. Loft Markets Inc. as a retail store operator and George W. Loft Realty Company to handle all real estate transactions, primarily for leasing retail space. In 1938 Loft sub-divided forty acres of his estate at Baldwin, Long Island, erecting twelve luxury homes.

In 1927 George Loft founded the Emerald National Bank & Trust Co. in a building he owned at Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street in Manhattan.[5][6] In 1929 he founded the South Shore Trust Co. in Rockville Centre, New York, and served as president until his death. Following his death, Frank W. Breitbach was elected to succeed George W. Loft as president of the South Shore Trust Company.

THE Q-102 BUS TOOK YOU TO WORK AT  CANDY FACTORY

THE MYSTERIOUS YEARS IN THE 80’S WHEN THE BUILDING WAS A BOAT FACTORY FOR REV. MOON.  I ONCE SPOTTED BOATS LEAVING THE BUILDING.  THE FISHING  FLEET BUSINESS FAILED AND THE BOATS ABANDONED AT AN ESTATE CHURCH OWNED.

THE BUILDING LATER WAS CONVERTED TO MOISHES MOVING AND STORAGE.

AFTER LOFT VACATE THE BUILDING REV. SUN YOUNG MOON MANUFACTURED FISHING BOATS IN THE BUILDING

MOON CHURCH TO MOVE BOATS FROM ITS ESTATE IN TARRYTOWN The village of Tarrytown has ordered the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church to remove a fleet of fishing boats from the grounds of the church’s estate here by next week, and the church has agreed to do so, village officials said today. As many as 98 of the sport-fishing boats had been stored on the spacious church property, known as the Belvedere Estate, before village officials discovered them in June and notified the church that storing the boats was a violation of local zoning laws. Church spokesmen said the boats would be used in a new spiritual-training program for members. Thirty of the boats were removed from the estate property in June, village officials said today. That would mean 68 are still here. The church has refused to permit outsiders to inspect the boats, hidden within the property.

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MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

THIS IS  NEW-STAND THAT IS AT 28TH STREET AND PARK AVENUE SOUTH.
IT WAS SITTING IN A RESTAURANT AND WATCHING THE OWNER STOCK HIS WATER SUPPLY. 
THE STAINLESS STEEL KIOSK IS SPARKLING CLEAN WITH A REFRIGERATOR
AND THE DISPLAY IS AN ARTWORK.  THE MERCHANT IS SO PROUD AND
METICULOUSLY DISPLAYS HIS WARES. 

EDITORIAL

THIS IS THE VENDOR THAT RIOC  HAS PERMITTED  FRONT AND CENTER AT THE TRAM.
TO SAY THE LEAST THIS CART IS AN EYESORE AND A POOR WELCOME TO THOSE EXITING THE TRAM. 
THERE ARE SO MANY VENDORS WHO ARE PROUD OF THEIR CARTS AND THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

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Text by Judith Berdy
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