408 Greenwich Street

also 24 Hubert Street | Tribeca | built 2007

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1882

    A six-story French flats building goes up on the corner of Greenwich and Hubert Streets

    Before the current building, the corner lot held a six-story French flats apartment building put up in 1882-83. By the late 1910s it had been converted to storage use by the Citizens' Warehouse Company. A one-story garage replaced it in 1929.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1929

    Louis Sheinart designs a one-story brick garage for Michael Retzger

    Architect Louis A. Sheinart designed a one-story red-brick garage at 408-410 Greenwich Street (also 22-24 Hubert Street) in 1929 for owner Michael Retzger, with Samuel Rabinowitz as builder. It had a stepped parapet, a 53-foot front on Greenwich and an 81-foot front on Hubert. The Landmarks Commission calls it characteristic of many garages of its era.

    “Designed in 1929 by Louis Sheinart for Michael Retzger, the red brick building, with its stepped parapet, is characteristic of many garages of the era.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1950

    The Greenwich Street garage serves as a freight terminal, then an auto repair shop

    The garage at 408-410 Greenwich Street was used as a freight terminal in the 1950s and as an auto repair shop in the 1960s. By the time of the landmarks survey it housed a glass sales and installation shop, with stucco over the brick and a new storefront in one of the old vehicle openings.

    “…building was used as a freight terminal in the 1950s, an auto repair in the 1960s…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 2003

    May

    Bond firm owner Samuel Ramirez Jr. proposes an 11-story headquarters and home, then shrinks it to nine

    Samuel Ramirez Jr. showed Community Board 1 an 11-story design for the garage lot in May 2003, then returned in late 2003 with a nine-story version to house his family's bond-trading firm, Samuel A. Ramirez and Co. Neighbors, especially in 399 Washington Street, objected to the height, and the board's Tribeca Committee backed them. Ramirez needed a hardship variance from the Board of Standards and Appeals.

    Source: Internet Archive

  5. 2004

    April 16

    A small investment bank wins final approval for a nine-story headquarters with apartments on the garage site

    The Board of Standards and Appeals approved a hardship application in March 2004, and the Landmarks Commission, which had cut two stories, praised Morris Adjmi's design as echoing Tribeca warehouses in modern materials. The 50-by-80-foot building would hold the offices of Samuel A. Ramirez and Company, whose 75 New York employees would work on four floors, with the Ramirez family living on the top two and four rental apartments below.

    Source: Internet Archive

  6. 2008

    Morris Adjmi's nine-story condominium on the corner takes its cue from Aldo Rossi

    The building that rose on the garage site at 408 Greenwich Street is a nine-story postmodern neoclassical condominium completed in 2008, designed and built by Morris Adjmi Architects. Its design was inspired by the Italian architect Aldo Rossi, and the AIA Guide to New York City lists it in its fifth edition.

    Source: Wikipedia

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