Greenpoint Terminal Market
61 West Street | also 69 West Street, 29 Noble Street, 67 West Street | Greenpoint | built 1931
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 2005
Preservationists seek landmark status for the Greenpoint Terminal as the area is rezoned for towers
In 2005 the nonprofit Municipal Arts Society met with the city landmarks office and the state historic preservation office to seek designation for the Greenpoint Terminal, and also pressed the case for the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory and the Domino Sugar Refinery. Those two won at least partial protection, but the terminal did not. That year Greenpoint and Williamsburg were also rezoned, and the terminal was zoned for high-rise residential towers. It reached the Landmarks Preservation Committee's calendar only weeks before the fire.
Source: bedfordandbowery.com
- 2006
A fire on May 2, 2006 guts the Greenpoint Terminal, but the seven-story warehouse at 67 West Street survives
On May 2, 2006, fire broke out at the Greenpoint Terminal and consumed several of its large warehouses. A tour guide told the writer it took about 400 firefighters 11 hours on the first day, and the fire needed 36 hours to put out entirely. The seven-story warehouse at 67 West Street survived. The FDNY blamed an attempt to melt the plastic off copper wiring; a homeless immigrant first confessed, then denied it and took a no-contest plea, and some preservationists believe it was arson, though there is no conclusive evidence.
Source: bedfordandbowery.com
- 2013
Artist Lia Post runs the Fowler Arts Collective in a loft inside 67 West Street
By late 2013 the mixed media artist Lia Post rented two spaces inside 67 West Street, one as her own studio and the other for the Fowler Arts Collective, which she ran as a workspace and gallery for local artists. The loft covers about 4,500 square feet. A square steel patch on one wall marks where the cast-iron sky bridges that linked the complex's buildings were once attached. Post held a one-year lease that renews annually, and tenants had no guarantee of staying long-term.
Source: bedfordandbowery.com
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