7 Worth Street

Tribeca | built 1920

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.

1882
A four-story building at 7 Worth Street operates as a pork packing plant
An alteration application filed in 1882 shows that the building then standing at 7 Worth Street was a brick store and loft building of four stories, used as a pork packing plant. Theodore C.B. Vidal owned it.
“An Alteration Application of 1882 indicates that this structure was then a four-story brick store and loft building used as a pork packing plant…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1887
Vault-light manufacturer Jacob Mark leases the building at 7 Worth Street
By 1887 Fanny L. Carter, a relative of Henry C. Carter, owned the building; Henry appears in city directories as a merchant dealing in supplies. The lessee was Jacob Mark, a prosperous maker of iron vault lights who had formerly been with the firm of Ingalls & Mark. He remained the lessee for some years afterward.
“…the lessee was Jacob Mark, a prosperous manufacturer of iron vault lights…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1955
Two stories are removed to turn 7 Worth Street into a trucking terminal and workshop
By 1910 it served as a wholesale grocery warehouse, and in 1955 the B. & G. Thomaselli Company had the top two stories demolished, turning it into a trucking terminal with warehouse space on the ground floor and factory, office and warehouse space on the floor above. The building also functioned as an accessory garage for Nos. 9 to 13 Worth Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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