1 Coenties Slip

also 34 Water Street, 66 Pearl Street, 38 Water Street | Financial District | built 1920

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1689

    Frederick Philipse builds a house at Pearl Street and Coenties Slip that stands until 1827

    An earlier house on this site, built in 1689 for Frederick Philipse, stood at the corner of Pearl Street and Coenties Slip. When it was torn down in 1827, workmen found a cannonball in its walls, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission links to the 1689-91 Leisler uprising. A 1769 sketch shows the date 1689 on its front. Philipse probably used the house as his city residence while he acquired land in Westchester.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1745

    John Jay is born to a family thought to be living in the earlier house here

    The LPC's Fraunces Tavern Block report reasons from family wills that Peter Jay and his wife, Mary Van Cortlandt, were still living in the old Philipse house at Pearl Street and Coenties Slip in 1745. Their son John, later the first Chief Justice of the United States, was born that year. Within a few months Peter Jay gave up his business and the family settled on a farm in Rye, New York.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1831

    James B. Clark and his brother open a dry goods store in a new Greek Revival building

    The Philipse house came down in 1827, but nothing replaced it until 1831. The new building, at 66 Pearl Street (also No. 1 Coenties Slip), had a red-brick upper facade with brownstone trim and a storefront of heavy granite piers. the brothers James B. Clark and William moved their dry goods business into it, according to the Daytonian in Manhattan blog.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1839

    October 24

    James B. Clark warns a meeting of bankers that merchants are about to fail

    At a crowded gathering in the City Hotel during the aftermath of the Panic of 1837, Clark said that if the banks did not give relief, seven of every ten merchants would break within twenty days. The Morning Herald reported his remarks. He died on December 21, 1844, aged 46, by which time the Van Wyck hardware store occupied the ground floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1858

    The Burrell brothers build a produce store at 64 Pearl Street

    Next door at 64 Pearl Street (34 Water Street), a building replaced an older house that the Jay family had sold in 1789. Harry, Seymour and Malvin C. Burrell, trading as H. Burrell and Company, put up a six-story brick store in 1858 and ran their produce business there. When the LPC wrote its 1978 report, the New York Landmarks Conservancy owned the building and planned to restore it.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  6. 1974

    May

    A last-minute deal saves 64 and 66 Pearl Street from becoming a parking lot

    When scaffolding went up in May 1974, preservationists feared that the Uris Buildings Corporation, which owned both buildings, meant to demolish them for parking. A last-minute agreement sold them to the Landmarks Conservancy instead. In 1982 they were joined internally with 3 and 5 Coenties Slip, and the upper floors now hold 42 apartments behind the original 1831 exterior.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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