232 West Broadway

Tribeca | built 1915

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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

1870
A two-story loft is built on a former coal yard at West Broadway and North Moore Street
In 1870 M. A. Many of Summit, New Jersey, had the Newark architect M. H. Scott plan a two-story store and loft for the southwest corner at West Broadway and North Moore Street, where a coal yard had stood. It was among the earliest commercial buildings on North Moore Street, to the west of West Broadway. By 1907 it housed a rag-storage business whose billboard-style sign stretched across the roof.
“The building was erected on the former site of a coal yard and was one of the first commercial buildings to be erected on North Moore Street west of West Broadway.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1955
A former fish-packing plant is remodeled for an auto-parts supplier
After its days as a rag store, a paper warehouse and a restaurant, the corner building served as a fish-packing plant through the 1940s and into the 1950s. In 1955 its storefronts were altered when it was remodeled for the Worth Auto Parts & Supply Company. The Landmarks report notes it remains in commercial use.
“The building later housed a paper warehouse and a restaurant before becoming a fish packing plant in the 1940s and 1950s.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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