324 Canal Street

also 43 Lispenard Street | Tribeca | built 1864

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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. 1864

    George T. Jackson replaces a three-story house with a marble-faced loft at 324 Canal Street

    Canal Street was a major shopping street in 1863 when Jackson, a glass merchant based on Maiden Lane, tore down the old house on this lot. His new five-story Italianate building, 20 feet wide, opened the next year, but he never moved his own business in. Its early tenants included Bernstein Brothers, makers and importers of dress trimmings, who advertised both this address and the older building behind at 43 Lispenard Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1875

    July 28

    A burglar breaks into the second floor of 324 Canal Street and runs into a man working upstairs

    Thomas Mott expected the building to be empty on a Sunday morning and broke into the upholstery firm F. W. Leonard & Co. around 8:00. D. B. Louden was working in his office on the floor above, heard the noise and went down. Mott fled into the street with Louden behind him, a policeman caught him, and he was held on $2,000 bail.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1876

    Jackson adds a five-story annex on Lispenard Street, joining the building through the block

    In 1875-76 Jackson replaced a two-story converted dwelling at the southern end of the lot with a five-story addition. The Canal Street front uses double-height paneled pilasters under molded arches with large keystones. The Lispenard Street front is a simpler brick version, and its storefront is still the original cast iron, with fluted piers and columns.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1883

    August 29

    A worker falls through a freight hatchway and dies at 43 Lispenard Street

    Loft buildings without elevators hauled goods up and down through open shafts called hatchways, a job often done by teenage workers with ropes and pulleys. On August 29, 1883, the New York Times reported that Max Strauss, 28, a German, had fallen through a hatchway at the Lispenard Street annex the previous afternoon and was killed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1906

    January 11

    A garment maker is tried for ignoring Board of Health orders about unsanitary conditions at 324 Canal

    Clothing manufacturer Jacob Schinberg was told by the Board of Health in 1905 to fix conditions dangerous to life and health in his workroom here, and was arrested when he did not. At his General Sessions trial, Recorder Goff called the conditions horrible. Schinberg's lawyer blamed the Board for never informing him, and the judge reluctantly let him go on that technicality.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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