361 Greenwich Street

also 355 Greenwich Street | Tribeca | built 1915

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  1. 1872

    Edwin Harrison adds two floors to the old Federal house and fills it with twelve tenant families

    No. 361 began around 1807 as a three-and-a-half-story Federal house. After butter and egg merchant Edwin M. Harrison bought it in 1866, he raised it in 1872 by removing the pitched roof and adding two stories, in a compatible style. The Landmarks Preservation Commission says the upper floors became a tenement for twelve families, over a storefront at street level.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1876

    June 30

    A tenant at 361 Greenwich sees a street stabbing near Vesey Street and is called to testify

    Maurice McNamara, an Irish-born tenant, was sitting by a fruit stand at Washington and Vesey Streets one afternoon when a young man ran past and knocked boys to the pavement. Minutes later the wounded John Dolan collapsed by a bootblack stand and was stabbed to death by a boy identified as Rockson. McNamara was later summoned to testify against the attacker.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1885

    William Herron and Company leases the whole building for its coconut and confectioners' supply trade

    By 1885 William Herron, an Irish-born importer, occupied all of 361 Greenwich Street as the office and salesroom of William Herron & Co. He had founded the firm in 1876 and specialized in San Blas coconuts, shelled nuts and supplies for confectioners. A state inspection in 1901 counted 14 workers sorting and picking nuts there, two men and twelve women.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1982

    The butter-and-egg warehouse is joined to 355-359 Greenwich and turned into ten lofts

    Butter and egg merchants stayed at 361 Greenwich Street for decades, including Seckel & Kiernan, which leased it from about 1912. In 1982 the building was linked internally with 355-359 Greenwich and converted into ten large loft apartments. The ground floor became a restaurant in 1997, and the space later housed the Italian restaurant Il Mulino.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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