1912: The Cat Lady of Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, and the Mysterious Thanksgiving Day Fire » AbrahamStraus1915
Founded in Brooklyn as Wechsler & Abraham by Abraham Abraham and Joseph Wechsler in 1865, the first store was at 285 Fulton Street. The department store became Abraham & Straus in 1893, when the Straus family (including Isidor Straus, who 19 years later died on the Titanic) bought out Wechsler’s interest in the store. Abraham & Straus continued to expand in the early 20th century, acquiring buildings on Fulton Street and building new ones on Livingston Street. By 1912, Octavia Friedrich was living in the shadows of A&S (pictured here in 1915). Museum of the City of New York Collections
Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn, Fulton Street, 1915
