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28 Mar '14
1. 67 Vestry Street The noble fortress shown below is the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company’s warehouse in New York. It is not far from their now-demolishedheadquarters in Tribeca at 31 Vesey Street. It was built in 1897 by the same architect who did the Flatiron Building, Frederick Dinkelberg. Frank Helmle, also a noted […]
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The demolition of this bank building the SE corner of Chambers and West Broadway is one of the events that created the idea for Tribeca Trust. The building fit well into the unprotected part of Tribeca South Historic District. It was built around 1920. The black and white image of the bank building is from […]
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During the recent fight over the much-hated design for the new buildings in Tribeca East Historic District at 100 Franklin Street, Jamie Gordon circulated a petition asking Tribeans to object to the design (a picture of which is above). She later gave it to us to study. The petition gathered just over 1200 signatures, […]
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15 Mar '14I have been spending a lot of time at the Municipal Archives with the Tribeca Trust interns at 31 Chambers Street. The archives are in the Surrogates Court Building, a Beaux-Arts pile that is an official NYC Landmark. According to Wikipedia “the building was designed by John R. Thomas and built between 1899 and 1907. […]
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15 Mar '14
The future of a wonderful fortress, the warehouse of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (the A&P) at the southern corner of Vestry and West Streets is in now in doubt. No demolition permit has yet been granted, but the real estate press is talking as if destruction as a real possibility. Have a […]
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