355 Greenwich Street

also 28 Harrison Street | Tribeca | built 1915

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

  1. 1855

    Caroline Ingersoll is arrested on a charge of running a brothel in the brick house at 355 Greenwich Street

    In 1822 No. 355 Greenwich Street was advertised as a three-story brick house suited to a genteel family. By the 1850s the neighborhood had changed, and in 1855 Mrs. Caroline Ingersoll was arrested there on a charge of keeping a house of assignation, the period term for a brothel. This earlier house was later replaced by Edwin Harrison's 1891 loft building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1891

    Leicht & Havell design an investment loft for butter-and-egg merchant Edwin M. Harrison

    Edwin M. Harrison, a butter and egg merchant who bought real estate around the expanding produce district, commissioned Leicht & Havell in 1890 for a building covering 355-359 Greenwich and 28-30 Harrison Streets. Its two facades are identical above the cast-iron storefront, with three-story piers, brick corbelling and pediments dated 1891. Harrison leased the space instead of using it himself.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1894

    August 30

    A produce tenant testifies against a police captain tried for demanding $25 over an awning

    After fruit dealer Louis F. Bernholtz put up an awning in February 1891, Police Captain John Thomas Stephenson called it illegal and offered to ignore it for $25, saying it was worth $100 or $150. Neighboring merchants eventually went to the police commissioners. On August 30, 1894 Stephenson was tried for blackmail and bribery, and Bernholtz was among the produce-district men who testified against him.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1903

    March 19

    Elbridge T. Gerry, founder of the children's protection society, buys the building

    The Harrison estate sold the building to millionaire lawyer Elbridge T. Gerry for $159,000 on March 19, 1903. He also worked for the animal-protection society, but Gerry became famous for starting the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. His main tenant was Reynolds & Company, butter, cheese and egg dealers, whose founder John Jay Reynolds belonged to the animal society too.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1909

    August

    Tenant Zenith Butter & Egg opens crates from the Midwest and finds that chicks have hatched

    In the summer of 1909 workers at Zenith Butter & Egg Co. opened crates of eggs shipped from the Midwest and found some had hatched. A photograph of one crate, with dead chicks in the middle, appeared in the New York Produce Review on September 1, which blamed long spells of very hot weather. The trade journal warned merchants that the problem was widespread.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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