401 Greenwich 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.

1884
Joseph Thum opens a bowling alley at 401 Greenwich Street that runs until a fire in 1902
The workshop at 401 Greenwich Street began as a German restaurant. In 1884 Joseph Thum, known as the father of modern American bowling, opened lanes there, and the building housed what is described as the first bowling academy in the United States until a fire in 1902. The city's landmarks report also notes that the rear shop on this lot once held a bowling alley.
Source: Wikipedia
1920
Liborio Tringali, an Italian blacksmith, sets up his ironworks at 401 Greenwich Street
Tringali arrived in the neighborhood from Italy in the 1920s, worked as a blacksmith, and then started an ironwork business in a two-story workshop at 401 Greenwich. He remained in Tribeca until the 1990s. The shop was known for the iron tree guards that appeared all over Manhattan, and his family still runs the business in New Jersey.
Source: tribecatrust.org
1941
Tringali tears down a frame house and adds a brick shop at 401 Greenwich Street
Liborio Tringali tore down the three-story frame house at the front of the lot in 1941 and had Allan L. Church design a one-story brick addition. It was attached to the brick iron shop at the rear, which the landmarks report says had earlier held a bowling alley, a dining room and a kitchen. The facade was raised six feet in 1957, when the rear was also enlarged.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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