Bazzini Building

339 Greenwich Street | also 21 Jay Street | Tribeca | built 1900

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1899

    The Mohlmann estate builds a six-story warehouse for its wholesale grocery business

    John H. Mohlmann began buying the small brick buildings at Jay and Greenwich Streets in 1880, and after his death his heirs redeveloped the corner. Architect C. Wilson Atkins designed a six-story steel-frame warehouse in 1899-1900. The family used it for their wholesale grocery business. In the 1910s and 1920s butter and egg wholesalers, including George M. Rittenhouse & Co. and the Nathan Brothers, leased space.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1903

    James S. Barron & Company sets up temporary headquarters after a fire destroys its own building

    James S. Barron & Company, dealers in electrical supplies, was burned out on April 8, 1903 in a fire that caused $185,000 in damage, fully covered by insurance. The firm opened temporary headquarters at 339-343 Greenwich Street while a new building went up on its old site, due about May 1, 1905. Its wares ranged from pole-line hardware to battery-powered flashlights.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1920

    April 15

    Striking food teamsters attack a Goode Brothers & Kieffer butter wagon outside the building

    During the 1920 Food Teamsters strike, about thirty-five strikers attacked a horse-drawn wagon belonging to the butter dealer Goode Brothers & Kieffer Co. on April 15, slashing the ropes on its load and following it to the Jay Street warehouse. Police dispersed the mob. A month later Goode Brothers & Kieffer leased the building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1943

    The Bazzini family buys the building, later moving its nut company in

    The Bazzini family, dried-fruit and nut wholesalers, bought the building in 1943 and leased it to wholesale food firms, among them the Evelyn Packing Company, a pickled-fish dealer, and various dairy wholesalers. The Bazzini Brothers Company moved here from Park Place at the time of the Washington Market's demolition in the late 1960s; it had been at Park Place since its founding in 1886.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  5. 1997

    One of Tribeca's last food processors, Bazzini, leaves for Hunts Point

    Rocco Damato, who bought the Bazzini operation with Jim Strong in 1983, told the Times in 1997 that real estate taxes were too high, and one of Tribeca's last food processors moved north to Hunts Point. Metal letters over the central arches still read Bazzini Brothers and 1886, the company's founding year, which many people mistake for the building's date of 1899-1900. By November 1999 the building held ten rental apartments.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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