34 Walker Street

also 309 Church Street | Tribeca | built 2026

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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.

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1843
April 7
A Verplanck family house at 34 Walker Street is offered for rent before the loft replaces it
An earlier building on the site stood here in the 1840s, when Walker and Church Streets were still a respectable residential area. On April 7, 1843, a Herald advertisement offered the three-story house at 34 Walker Street for lease to a genteel family; Mr. Verplanck lived there. A three-story wooden house also stood at 309 Church Street, on the Church Street side of the lot. Both were later cleared for a loft building.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1867
Architect E. J. M. Derrick builds an L-shaped cast-iron loft at 309 Church Street for dry-goods merchants
Derrick, a former Erie Railway station designer, opened his own office at 119 Broadway in October 1866, and this loft was among his first jobs. John F. Delaplaine commissioned it for the dry-goods firm Heine, Huber & Company. Using the same molds for the Church and Walker Street facades gave a uniform look and saved money. The tenant's name soon vanished from the address.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1891
June 21
An Irish linen agent bound for 309 Church Street is turned back at the dock by an immigration official
Charles Malley, who traveled between Donegal and New York buying linens for the importers P. O'Doughtery & Sons of this building, arrived on June 21, 1891 and was held on the ship. General O'Beirne, the assistant superintendent of immigrants, judged him likely to become a public charge and refused to accept a bond offered by the firm. Malley was sent back to Ireland.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1902
September 13
A teenage worker's wax-copied key leads to an arrest for selling stolen underwear at 309 Church Street
After a two-year string of unexplained thefts from Henry Lewis's underwear factory on Wooster Street, police arrested 19-year-old Frederick Blumenthal in September 1902. He had pressed a key into wax and had a duplicate cut. Max Wolkovitch, who sold the goods in three stores including the one at 309 Church Street, was arrested for receiving them on September 13.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2025
February 27
New owners begin restoring the cast-iron facades of 34 Walker Street and add an infill building
On February 27, 2025, Prosper Property Group and Urban Capital acquired the building, which fronts both Walker and Church Streets, along with the two-story corner building at 32 Walker Street. The corner building was demolished, and an infill structure designed by SOMA Architecture and The Turett Collaborative is going up in its place. Meanwhile, workers stripped 150 years of paint from the cast iron and refabricated missing pieces.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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A Verplanck family house at 34 Walker Street is offered for rent before the loft replaces it

Architect E. J. M. Derrick builds an L-shaped cast-iron loft at 309 Church Street for dry-goods merchants

An Irish linen agent bound for 309 Church Street is turned back at the dock by an immigration official

A teenage worker's wax-copied key leads to an arrest for selling stolen underwear at 309 Church Street

New owners begin restoring the cast-iron facades of 34 Walker Street and add an infill building

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