36 Laight Street

also 15 Vestry Street | Tribeca | built 1910

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

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1910
Samuel Weil, a paste and glue maker, builds a seven-story warehouse at 36 Laight Street
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Buchman & Fox designed this fireproof steel-frame warehouse of cream brick and limestone, constructed in 1910 for Samuel Weil. Weil headed a paste and glue company at 371-375 Greenwich Street and developed other Tribeca warehouses, including 174-178 Hudson Street in 1900 and two on Greenwich Street in 1911-13. Before the warehouse, the lot held a masonry house facing Laight Street and a stable toward Vestry Street, and Weil's estate owned the new building until the mid-twentieth century.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1921
Warehouse companies lease 36 Laight Street through the early twentieth century
The Mercantile Warehouse Company, which operated several Tribeca buildings, gave up its lease here in 1921. Independent Warehouse Inc. then rented it together with 38-44 Laight Street through the 1920s and 1930s. Later occupants included Consolidated Warehouses, Amadel Transporting Company and Traffic Coordinators, Inc., and until shortly before the 1992 designation Fantis Foods used it for storage.
“Mercantile Warehouse Company, which had several buildings in the Tribeca area, gave up a lease on this building in 1921…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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