Justus H. Schwab Plaque
Justus H. Schwab Plaque
50 East 1st StreetNew York, NY 10003
A plaque placed at No. 50 commemorates the anarchist, Justus H. Schwab, who lived upstairs above the saloon he opened in the later part of the 1800′s and ran until his death in 1900. One of his obituaries reads: “Even this once so knotty figure has the axe of the All-conqueror felled. Flown is the thunder voice of former days, quenched is the fire in the imperial eye. With muffled step, Death stole into the well-known homestead at 50 East First Street – Justus H. Schwab at 6:10 o’clock last night, and at the age of fifty-three, breathed his last.” This lively saloon attracted the likes of Emma Goldman and many other radicals of the time.