The Tribeca (165 Chambers Street)

165 Chambers Street | also 303 Greenwich Street, 149 Reade Street, 167 Chambers Street | Tribeca | built 1987

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  1. 1854

    November 9

    A private boarding house at 165 Chambers Street advertises rooms for families and gentlemen

    Before the marble building, 165 Chambers Street held a boarding house for comfortable tenants. A New York Herald advertisement on November 9, 1854 offered rooms to families and single gentlemen, with use of a bath. Transient boarders paid $1.25 a day and day boarders $3 a week. This was an earlier building on the site.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1859

    Butter and cheese merchant John S. Martin completes a white marble building at 165 Chambers Street

    John S. Martin, who founded his butter and cheese business in 1851, finished 165 Chambers Street by 1859 as a home for the firm. The New-York Tribune noted its white marble front, which sits above a cast iron storefront with fluted Corinthian columns. Martin eventually owned at least ten buildings on Chambers Street and five on Greenwich Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1883

    September 15

    A steamship captain's wife vanishes from Chambers Street carrying $8,000 in cash and diamonds

    On September 15, 1883, Elizabeth Morton visited broker James E. Morris at 165 Chambers Street with $3,000 for a mining-stock purchase and wore jewelry worth about $5,000. She left with it all and disappeared, and her friends feared she had been drugged or robbed. She turned up days later at an acquaintance's home in New Jersey, still in the same clothes, with the money and jewels intact.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1890

    July 18

    A clerk's embezzlement from a butter firm at 165 Chambers Street ends in a Montreal arrest

    William F. Dickie, confidential clerk of the butter merchants Russel, Crego & Son, forged checks from 1888 and fled in October 1889 when he was about to be found out. Detectives tracked his wife to Rome, New York, then watched her ship household goods to Montreal, where he was arrested in April 1890. On July 18, 1890 he was sentenced to nine and a half years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1987

    165 Chambers Street is joined internally to neighboring buildings as part of The Tribeca

    In 1987 165 Chambers Street was linked inside to a new building at 303 Greenwich Street and to 167 Chambers and 147 Reade Streets. The complex of residences is known as The Tribeca, and 165 Chambers now has one apartment per floor, each opened directly by an elevator. The 1859 cast iron storefront and marble facade still survive from the street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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