Brill Building

Brill Building It wasn’t until 1931, when the Brill Building was built at 1619 Broadway (at Forty-ninth Street), that the popular music publishing industry established a stable location. Named for Morris Brill, who had a clothing store on the ground floor, this building was the last hub of the music business. Among its early tenants were Mills Music, Famous Music, Fred Fisher Music, and Irving Caesar Music. As Hal David , lyricist and former president of ASCAP, recalled, “The preponderance of…