Treasure Chest Thursday: Amsterdam Cheese Co., FLPBA 25th anniversary publication, Part 5

The First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association, a community association for former residents of Lubin, Russian Empire (aka Labun or, now Yurovshchina, Ukraine), celebrated the anniversary of their founding in 1911 with a commemorative publication. I have been sharing a few of the pages of this document. 

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

A previous Treasure Chest Thursday post focused on Max Garber's (my great uncle) work at Phenix Cheese Company. By the 1936, when the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association celebrated its 25th anniversary, Max was one of the principals in the Amsterdam Cheese Company, Inc. The firm purchased a full-page advertisement in the FLPBA's 25th anniversary publication.

7 Harrison Street, New York, New York is located in what would now be called the Tribeca neighborhood, on the west side of Lower Manhattan. Now Tribeca is mostly residential and up-scale. In the 1920s and 1930s when Amersterdam Cheese would have been located at this address, the area was mostly stores and loft buildings. 

This is Google Maps photo of the building today - under renovation.

I have queried in the New York State Division of Corporations database in hope of finding information on when Amsterdam Cheese Company, Inc. was founded and when it ceased to exist. I did not locate any indexed record.

In a 1925 New York City directory, however, I did locate an earlier address: 162 East 104th Street, New York, New York.[1] At first when I moved little Google maps pegman to street view, I was unsure of which building was actually #162. Then I looked closely and saw that it was quite clear which building had been occupied by Amsterdam Cheese Co.

I certainly appreciate when murals embrace building history.

While Max was from the community of Lubin (aka Labun), Russian Empire and involved in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association, his business partner Aaron Samuel Schwartz was not. While Aaron was an immigrant, as well, he hailed from Karapchiv, a small community located 22 miles west of what is now Chernivtsi, Ukraine.[2] Before World War I, Karapchiv was within Bukovina, Austrian Empire. 

In their World War I Draft Registration Cards, filled out in June 1917, both Max and Aaron reported working for the Phenix Cheese Company. In addition, they lived on the same street: 101st Street (Max at 171 E. 101st and Aaron at 179 E. 101st Street).[3]

 

Notes:
1. Polk's Trow's New York City 1924-25 Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, (New York City, NY: R.L. Polk & Co., 1924), 295, entry for "Amsterdam Cheese Co Inc"; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 February 2015).
2. "U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," digital  images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 February 2015), entry for Aaron Samuel Schwartz; citing NARA Selective Service System Record Group 147.
3. "World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 March 2008), card for Max Garber, no. 187, New York, New York Draft Board 151, Precinct 39; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, National Archives microfilm publication M1509; imaged from Family History Library microfilm roll 1,786,811. 
"World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 February 2015), card for Samuel Schwartz, no. 222, New York, New York Draft Board 151, Precinct 39; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, National Archives microfilm publication M1509; imaged from Family History Library microfilm roll 1,786,811.