24 Harrison Street

Tribeca | built 1886

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1876

    July 21

    Edwin Harrison buys this lot and its neighbors from former First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler

    On July 21, 1876 butter and egg merchant Edwin M. Harrison purchased Nos. 355 through 359 Greenwich Street and Nos. 22 and 24 Harrison Street from Julia Gardiner Tyler, widow of President John Tyler. The price equaled roughly $1 million today. The lots held houses from the 1820s and 1830s that Harrison would replace with commercial buildings.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1886

    Edward Simon designs mirror-image four-story loft buildings at Nos. 24 and 26

    In 1886 architect Edward Simon designed two matching loft buildings for Edwin Harrison at Nos. 24 and 26 Harrison Street. Each was four stories and 32 feet wide, with a cast-iron storefront base and plain upper floors, topped by a single pressed-metal cornice. The first tenants were butter and egg firms: Herrons & Company took No. 24, and Henningson & Company took No. 26.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1899

    February 17

    A fire at No. 26 sends fifty egg-handling women scrambling to the roof next door

    A fire broke out at Henningson & Company at No. 26 on February 17, 1899, causing panic at No. 24. About fifty young women employed by Herrons & Company, who handled eggs, ran upstairs and escaped over the roof to an extension on Greenwich Street. None was hurt, but Henningson reported about $10,000 in damage.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1905

    January 5

    Thieves carry off eighty cases of eggs in a burglary wave that targets the district

    Starting in December 1904, burglars in the butter and egg district stole eggs rather than cash. On January 5, 1905 the thieves hit R. H. Peck, which had joined the building by 1899, and took eighty cases of thirty dozen eggs each, valued at $720. Merchants complained about police protection, and the New-York Tribune said officers lost interest after a few days.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2010

    April

    Terroir Tribeca, a wine bar branch, opens on the ground floor

    After a 2004 conversion to mixed use and restaurant fit-out in 2009, the ground floor became Terroir Tribeca, which opened in April 2010 as an offshoot of the wine bar in the East Village. The New York Times food critic Florence Fabricant noted its sandwiches and a fixation on meatballs. In 2012 the upper floors were turned into apartments, one large loft per floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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