Thomas Shoe Factory

Listed in the Real Estate Record as 5 stories, built at 6.1 The building was sold by Thomas to Israel Rokeach in 1913. By 1917, the building was occupied by Israel Rokeach and the Progressive Knitting Mills. In that year, a catastrophic fire occurred that nearly destroyed the building.2 Five years later, another fire devastated the building.3

• 1"Buildings Projected," Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, 28 May 1892 (v. 49, no. 1263), 872.
• 2"Big Factory Building on Hewes St. Destroyed," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 16 February 1917, 4.
• 3"6 Firemen Overcome at So. 5th St. Blaze", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 15 June 1922, 24.