Superior Ink

400 West 12th Street | also 469 West Street | West Village | built 2007

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  1. 1919

    Nabisco builds a cracker bakery here to match its other corporate complexes

    An earlier building on the site was a factory put up in 1919-21 as a cracker bakery for Nabisco, designed by the architect A. G. Zimmermann. It matched the company's main complex a few blocks north, now Chelsea Market, and its plants in Pittsburgh and Chicago, an early case of giving a company one look through architecture. Its 195-foot smokestacks stood for over 85 years.

    Source: Village Preservation

  2. 2006

    January

    The Board of Standards and Appeals clears demolition of the Superior Ink factory for a 190-foot tower

    In January 2006 the city's Board of Standards and Appeals gave the developer the go-ahead to tear down the Superior Ink factory and build a 190-foot residential tower, about 80 feet shorter than the original plans. Andrew Berman of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation said the group was stepping up its fight to landmark the factory, which was not on the Landmarks Commission's docket.

    Source: Internet Archive

  3. 2006

    November 16

    The Superior Ink smokestacks come down, ending the waterfront's last operating factory

    On November 16, 2006, the Superior Ink factory and its 195-foot smokestacks were demolished. The stacks belonged to the last factory still operating along the Greenwich Village waterfront, but the factory was neither landmarked nor in a historic district. The preservation society fought a plan for a 270-foot tower, and a variance fight led to a building about 25 percent smaller in height and floor area.

    Source: Village Preservation

  4. 2009

    Related finishes a Robert A.M. Stern tower and townhouses where Gwathmey's design was dropped

    The Related Companies completed the Superior Ink complex in 2009, a 17-story condominium plus townhouses by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Related's first architect, Charles Gwathmey, was eventually replaced; he had earlier designed Astor Place Tower for Related, a building that drew poor reviews and sales. Anne Mulcahy and Hilary Swank have lived there, and the building flooded and was damaged in Hurricane Sandy.

    Source: Wikipedia

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