Tribeca Historic District signs like this one won’t be extended to neighboring blocks. Image Credit: Center for CityLaw.

Tribeca Trust sought to extend the Tribeca Historic District. In 2016, the Tribeca Trust filed a Request for Evaluation with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission which proposed that the Commission extend the borders of three historic districts in the Tribeca neighborhood.
The Commission denied Tribeca Trust’s Request and refused to advance the Request. The Commission reasoned that much of the area did not merit designation and there was already a preexisting high level of landmark protection in Tribeca. (read more…)

Architect’s rendering of 456 Greenwich Street. Image credit: Stephen B. Jacobs Group, P.C.

Six-story-plus-penthouse hotel approved after applicants changed the brick used in the cladding, and added masonry to large window openings. On September 8, 2015, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a proposal demolishing an existing building at 456 Greenwich Street in Manhattan, and constructing a new hotel, with ground-floor retail uses. The lot to be developed lies partially within the Tribeca North Historic District, with the western portion of the site lying outside of the landmarked boundaries. The site is currently occupied by a garage, originally constructed as a freight terminal building in 1942, and heavily altered in subsequent years. (read more…)

Updated rendering of 100 Franklin Street in the Tribeca Historic District. Image Courtesy of DDG.

Applicants amended plan to feature primarily masonry façade, in light of criticism of previous glass-faced plan.  On January 14, 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to approve a plan from DDG Partners to develop two adjacent, triangular-shaped lots currently used for parking, located at 100 Franklin Street in the Tribeca East Historic District. The Commission previously held a hearing on the proposed development on November 12, 2013. (read more…)

Nineteenth-century dry-goods warehouses approved as individual landmarks. On March 13, 2007, Landmarks designated 23 and 25 Park Place, cast-iron buildings built between 1856 and 1857 in lower Manhattan, as individual landmarks. Architect Samuel Adams Warner designed both buildings, which also have Murray Street entrances and share a party wall and facade, for the dry-goods firm Lathrop Ludington and Company. Warner designed several buildings in the SoHo-Cast Iron and Tribeca Historic Districts, as well as the individually-landmarked Collegiate Reformed Church. Decorative elements of the buildings include carved ornamentation around the windows and Corinthian columns.

During the mid-1800s the area below Chambers Street and west of Broadway was known as the “dry goods district.” The buildings at 23 and 25 Park Place were among the storehouses built to warehouse goods and furnish an attractive space for shoppers. Lathrop and Ludington sold fabric and associated supplies. Later, a series of similar merchants, a boxing gym, and apartments occupied the buildings. In 1921, The New York Daily News leased the space. The ground floor at 25 Park Place is currently home to an off-track betting parlor and both buildings are now primarily residential. (read more…)