24 Peck Slip

also 236 Front Street | Financial District | built 2004

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.

1827
Grocer Edward G. Faile rents a city water lot at Front Street and Peck Slip and builds on it
In 1827 the grocer Edward G. Faile put up a building at 236 Front Street (also 28 Peck Slip), on land he rented from the City of New York. The land was among the last water lots the city still held, and the Common Council did not want to sell at the low land values of 1827. The city did not sell Faile the land until 1840. This was an earlier building on the site.
“…constructed in 1827 for Edward G. Faile, a grocer, who rented this property from the Corporation of the City of New York.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1870
Two older buildings at 24-26 Peck Slip are rebuilt as one double building with stores
Two buildings had been put up on the site of 24-26 Peck Slip by 1835. In 1870-71 they were rebuilt as one double building and turned into tenements with stores on the ground floor. The four upper floors have a regular rhythm of segmental-arched windows with corbeled brick arches. This was an earlier building on the lot.
“Two buildings were erected on this site by 1835. They were rebuilt as one double building in 1870-71, when they were converted to tenements with stores below.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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