Greenwich Hotel

377 Greenwich Street | also 68 North Moore Street | Tribeca | built 2005

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.

1925
Six buildings are cleared at Greenwich and North Moore Streets for the Samro Garage
In 1925 six older buildings on a 100-foot-square corner lot were torn down. William Shary designed the replacement, a two-story brick building for Samro Garage, Inc., which held a parking garage and some stores. By the 1960s it belonged to Beech Nut Life Savers, Inc., which used it as a warehouse.
“In 1925 six buildings on this 100-foot square site at the southeast corner of Greenwich Street and North Moore Street were demolished for the construction of a two-story brick building…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1989
A 1989 demolition of the old garage leaves its brick ramps behind
The garage on the corner of Greenwich and North Moore Streets was demolished in 1989, but the job appears to have been left unfinished. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the site, brick ramps running from the ground story to the second story were still standing, along with the ramp down to the basement and at least part of the basement floor.
“It appears that the 1989 demolition of the building was incomplete, and brick ramps from the ground story to the second story and the ramp to the basement level…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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