34 Laight Street

also 13 Vestry Street | Tribeca | built 1918

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.

1918
John Fleming puts up the last store and loft building on the Laight Street block
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Otto Reissmann designed this five-story building in 1918 for John Fleming, an officer of the New York & New Jersey Produce Company (its treasurer), who also owned 32 Laight Street. No other store and loft building went up on the block after it, and it replaced a six-story tenement. The report suggests the produce firm may have used parts of both buildings.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1959
Amadel Transportation & Warehouse buys 34 Laight Street, leaving its sign on the Vestry Street side
Amadel, which also used 15 Vestry Street next door, acquired the building in 1959, and its signage still marks the Vestry Street facade. Earlier, the dyestuff firm Kuttroff Pickhardt & Company rented space in the 1920s, and the bakers' supply firm Kraemer & Wanke occupied it in the 1940s and 1950s. When the district was designated in 1992 the building stood vacant.
“Signage for the Amadel Transportation & Warehouse Company, which acquired the building in 1959 ... remains on the Vestry Street facade.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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