48 Laight Street

also 170 Hudson Street | Tribeca | built 2003

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1938
A gas station opens on the corner of Hudson and Laight Streets
In 1938 the Hudson Laight Service Station, Inc. built a one-story brick gasoline station, designed by Lama & Proskauer, with Joseph Palaynik as builder. It stood on a lot running 100 feet along Hudson Street and 38 feet along Laight Street. It replaced a four-story building on the corner and three three-story dwellings to the north. This station was an earlier building on the site of today's 48 Laight Street.
“It was built in 1938 by the Hudson Laight Service Station, Inc. to plans drawn by Lama & Proskauer.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1938
A diner operates at the north end of the Hudson and Laight Streets lot for 34 years
A diner stood at the north end of the Hudson Street lot, beside the gasoline station, from 1938 to 1972. By the time of the 1992 district report the station building had become an auto repair shop. Both were earlier buildings on the site now numbered 48 Laight Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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