A&P Warehouse

67 Vestry Street | also 260 West Street | Tribeca | built 1910

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  1. 1897

    Frederick Dinkelberg designs a fortress-like Romanesque Revival warehouse for the A&P

    The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company building was completed in 1897 as a seven-story storage warehouse by Frederick P. Dinkelberg. Two more stories and an extension went up in a renovation finished in 1910, designed by Frank Helme. Its heavy Romanesque Revival front gives it the look of a fortress.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1897

    The A&P warehouse of 1897 serves the Washington Market, where regional farmers sold daily

    The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company used the 1897 building as a warehouse for the Washington Market. Farmers from the region crowded into the market each day to sell produce, from New Jersey vegetables to strawberries grown as far south as the Carolinas. The architect, Frederick Dinkelberg, also worked on the Flatiron Building with Daniel Burnham.

    Source: nypress.com

  3. 1970

    Andy Warhol, John Chamberlain and Robert Wilson take loft space in the former warehouse

    By the 1970s and 80s an art community had settled into 67 Vestry, with Andy Warhol, the sculptor John Chamberlain and the playwright and director Robert Wilson among the residents. The market that the warehouse once served had closed in the mid-twentieth century, and the building became a neighborhood touchstone for artists and architects.

    Source: nypress.com

  4. 1977

    67 Vestry receives the first legal certificate of occupancy for residential use in the area

    Artists had lived in the building's lofts since the late 1960s, and in 1977 it received a legal certificate of occupancy for residential use, which the residents' own history says was a first. The sculptor Marisol lived and worked there as well. Residents describe the building as one of several centers of Tribeca's rebirth through art after the Washington Street Urban Renewal Plan destroyed much of the neighborhood.

    Source: tribecacitizen.com

  5. 1977

    Wim Wenders films part of An American Friend in the building, and Laurie Anderson uses it for Big Science

    The German director Wim Wenders filmed part of his movie An American Friend at 67 Vestry. The singer and composer Laurie Anderson later used the building as a backdrop for her album Big Science. Residents cite both as part of the loft building's life as a home and set for internationally known artists.

    Source: tribecacitizen.com

  6. 2015

    Developer Aby Rosen proposes demolishing 67 Vestry, and residents campaign to landmark it

    Rosen bought the nine-story building in 2005 and in February 2015 announced a plan to replace it with an 11-story, 42-unit residential tower. Tenants and the group Tribeca Trust asked for landmark status. Fifteen of the 24 rent-stabilized units were then occupied, and nine former tenants had been evicted since the purchase. It was one of four waterfront buildings left from old Tribeca, none of them landmarked.

    Source: nypress.com

  7. 2018

    Aby Rosen sells 67 Vestry to Iliad Realty Group, and a penthouse addition begins

    Residents' attempt to win landmark protection failed. Rosen sold the building to Iliad Realty Group in 2018, and a penthouse addition began that fall. It finished in 2024 as a duplex of 6,200 square feet, listed for $50 million. The building now has 15 apartments, two of them set aside for former tenants who stayed through the sale.

    Source: tribecacitizen.com

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