327 Church Street

Tribeca | built 1874

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.

1874
Julius Boekell designs a four-story store with a cast-iron front for G. Manley
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In 1874 a frame structure on this lot made way for a four-story building of stores and lofts fronted in cast iron. Julius Boekell designed it for G. Manley. Its later occupants included a general merchandise store and several leather companies, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's district report.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1951
The building loses three stories in 1936 and is rebuilt in 1951 as a one-story truck garage
By 1936 the building was being used as a factory, with a shed for auto repairs behind it, and that year its upper three stories were demolished. In 1951 it was reconstructed as a one-story truck garage for Benjamin Hochman, to designs by Brooklyn architect Mac L. Reiser. A used and military clothing store occupied it when the district report was written in the early 1990s.
“In 1951 the building was reconstructed to the designs of Brooklyn architect Mac L. Reiser for Benjamin Hochman to serve as a truck garage.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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