Galloway Gallery: Exhibit 26

When Debby Mayer reported in Columbia Paper that the properties owned by Eric Galloway and his various LLCs and NFPs totaled 38, the question arose: What had Gossips, with a total of 25 (27 if you counted the Armory houses and the lot at Fifth and Warren, which was the motivation for the Galloway Gallery series and not one of the numbered exhibits), missed? 

Mayer was kind enough to compare the list of parcels she'd gotten from the city treasurer with Gossips' list and identify the 11 properties it seemed Gossips had overlooked. Some checking revealed that all but one of those 11 parcels were portions of something that Gossips treated as a single property. For example, 217 Partition Street, listed as a separate parcel in the tax rolls, is the back half of one of Galloway's three contiguous vacant lots on the 200 block of Union Street; a parcel listed in the tax rolls simply as "Deer Alley" turned out to be the land adjoining the Robert Taylor House, which was held by the previous owner and sold to Galloway with the house; the vacant lot on the corner of Fifth and Warren is made up of two separate parcels.

There was one house on Mayer's list, however, that had escaped Gossips' notice. It's this one: 438 Union Street. It seems that Galloway had his eye on a couple of houses on this block. A Gossips source reports that Galloway made an offer on 446 Union Street, an 1830 Greek Revival house, but then withdrew it.

On the topic of Galloway's holdings in Hudson, Sam Pratt answers a question that went unanswered when he posed it to Tom Swope, executive director of the Galvan Initiatives Foundation: How much property does the new not-for-profit foundation own in Hudson? For the answer to that question, see "Real property: What Galvan actually owns?"