333 Greenwich Street

Tribeca | built 1907

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1869
An 1869 commercial conversion of No. 333 Greenwich Street leads to a cracker bakery and later storage
No. 333 Greenwich Street began as a masonry dwelling with a commercial ground floor; it was later raised to six stories and served as a hotel. It was altered for commercial use in 1869, and it later held the Thomas R. Harris cracker bakery. During the twentieth century it was storage space until it was demolished in 1959.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1872
Hugh Getty, developer of 16-18 Jay Street, starts as a carpenter in 1872
Hugh Getty, who owned and developed 16-18 Jay Street, began his New York career as a carpenter in 1872 and was a general contractor by the late 1870s. His contracts included the Hotels Vendome and Marlborough and houses on Fifth Avenue, and he put up nine buildings in the Tribeca West district between 1885 and 1905. He headed the Building Trades Employers' Association from 1916 to 1918 and died in 1922, after which his sons continued Hugh Getty, Inc.
“Getty began his career in New York City as a carpenter in 1872 and by the late 1870s he was working as a builder and general contractor.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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