Tribeca North Historic District

Most of the buildings in this district were constructed between 1880 and 1913, and they represent the last remnants of the once thriving warehouse and manufacturing industries of the Lower East Side, an area that played a major role in the emergence of New York City as an international port and major industrial center. The Tribeca North Historic District contains some of New York's largest-nineteenth-century brick warehouses and earliest surviving industrial buildings. Notable among these is a storage warehouse at 461-469 Greenwich Street that was built in 1880 in the Renaissance Revival style. One of the earliest storage warehouses, this six-story brick building is constructed in fireproof sections of approximately 30 by 100 feet, each section served by a separate lift. Currently used as a warehouse, another massive brick structure on Laight Street, between West and Washington Streets, appears to be a pre-Civil War sugar refinery. Additional interesting buildings in the area include the ten-story Fairchild Brothers and Foster pharmaceutical factory - designed in 1899 by Thomas R. Jackson at Laight Street – and the 1913 Independent Warehouse Inc. and Erie Railroad Greenwich Street Station at 415-427 Greenwich Street. A cobblestone restoration project was completed in September 2011 on Laight Street. ©2014