32 Laight Street

Tribeca | built 1909

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1909
Newtown Construction Company builds a six-story loft at 32 Laight Street
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John Woolley drew the plans for this through-block store and loft building, erected in 1909 as a single structure for the Newtown Construction Company. Its nearly identical Laight and Vestry Street facades use red and brown patterned brick with cast-iron window frames. A brick fire wall now divides it into two tax lots. It replaced a mid-nineteenth-century building facing Laight Street and a stable at the Vestry Street end.
“Erected as one building in 1909 to plans drawn by John Woolley for the Newtown Construction Company, it is divided by a brick fire wall…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
A produce-company treasurer owns 32 Laight Street as distillers, paper firms and drug wholesalers rent space
In the 1910s the building belonged to John Fleming, who was treasurer at the New York & New Jersey Produce Company and owned 34 Laight Street next door. Tenants then included J. Weinberg & Company, a paper firm, and the distillers Corning & Company. In the 1920s and 1930s it housed the wholesale drug firm O.H. Jadwin & Sons and two paper companies.
“…acquired by John Fleming, treasurer of the New York & New Jersey Produce Company and owner of the adjacent building at 34 Laight Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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