4 Staple Street

Tribeca | built 1868

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.

1797
A coal yard stands on the Staple Street lot, bought from Trinity Church in 1797
James Amar bought the lot from Trinity Church in 1797. Before 1800 it held a coal yard with a wood-framed building, and nineteenth-century maps keep showing a small frame structure set back from the lot line. This was an earlier use of the site, before the present brick building.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1868
Thomas Scott buys the lot and the building appears to be rebuilt with a brick front
The lot changed hands in the 1860s, and Thomas Scott bought it in 1868. The city's tax assessment on the property rose that same year, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission takes as a sign that the old frame structure was rebuilt with a new brick front at the lot line. The top story of today's building appears to date from then.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Harrison Street Cold Storage Company buys 4 Staple Street
In 1900 the Harrison Street Cold Storage Company acquired this building, adding it to its cold-storage properties at the north end of Staple Street. The Merchants' Refrigerating Company took over that firm in 1913.
“No. 4 Staple Street was acquired by the same firm in 1900.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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