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Robert Ripps took most of these shots of terra-cotta or cast iron sculptures around Tribeca. Can you guess where they are?
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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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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 '14The 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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Before Domino’s Sugar, there was Stuart’s Sugar in Tribeca You are looking at before and after images made from the same spot, some 214 years apart. The top image is T. Pollock’s engraving of the magnificent Stuart Steam Sugar Company’s Refinery. The Stuart refinery was in two buildings that stretched from Reade to Chambers along […]
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This is Tribeca’s Tipping Point What you see in this image is before and after photographs of 43 Park Place (Block 126, Lot 8). It is the north side of Park Place. The photo on the left was taken in the late 1880’s. It showcases the final business home of the wholesale operations of the […]
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16 Feb '14
Tribeca Before and After: 3 North Moore Street and 240 West Broadway The top photo is obviously the “before” photo. It is of 3 North Moore in the early 1960’s and can be found in Ada Louise Huxtable’s book “Classic New York: Georgian Gentility to Greek Elegance” (Anchor Books, 1964). Huxtable died last year. She […]
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I believe the first two photographs are of the same building. The site has become a parking lot.
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Here we see 69 Worth Street. We are looking north, most likely in 1898 (photo from Museum of City of NY). The street was “textile row” back then. The left side where Mr. Bowler Hat walks looks pretty much the same now (2013) as it did in 1898. But the right side of the street […]
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09 Dec '13
The first photo shows quite an astonishing pile at 407 Broadway, taken around 1900. It is between Walker and Lispenard Streets, on the west side of the street. It was a bank on the ground floor and other commercial enterprises that you can see in the windows. I am intrigued by the glimpse of […]
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