385 Greenwich Street

also 71 North Moore Street | Tribeca | built 1920

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.

1805
Former alderman Joshua Barker builds a two-story house on the corner after buying the lot
Joshua Barker, a onetime alderman of the Sixth Ward and a merchant, acquired this corner lot in 1805 and soon built a two-story house about forty feet deep. Around 1815 he added a second dwelling next door at 71 North Moore Street, and a third began going up just before his death. That third house passed to his widow in 1821 and no longer stands.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1874
James Foster has the old corner house enlarged into a four-story tenement with a shop below
James P. Foster bought the lot in 1870 and in 1874 hired Peter L.P. Tostevin to raise the two-and-a-half-story dwelling into a four-story tenement with a commercial ground floor. New storefronts with projecting show windows and an angled corner entrance went in during 1898. Since the 1920s the ground floor has been home to restaurants.
“In 1870 James P. Foster acquired the lot and in 1874 commissioned Peter L.P. Tostevin to alter and enlarge the corner structure from a two-and-a-half-story dwelling…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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