702 Greenwich Street

also 267 West 10th Street | West Village | built 1937

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1. 1937

   A one-story brick garage for trucking firms is built at Greenwich and West 10th Streets

   This one-story red brick garage and trucking warehouse with an office went up in 1937 at an estimated $5,000, for the 80-82 Carmine St. Corporation, headed by Charles Passanante. It housed trucking firms into the 1960s, beginning with Greater City Trucking and Lippincott's Express in 1937-40. The pivot steel windows on West 10th Street are original.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1937

   Romanian-born architect Harry Silverman, a Penn-trained designer, plans the garage

   Harry Silverman, who designed this building in 1937, was born in Romania in 1903 and studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent the 1920s and early 1930s in the offices of Delano & Aldrich, Penrose V. Stout and Goodhue Associates, and went out on his own in 1932. His later work included Modell stores, the New Fulton Fish Market (1950-51, since demolished) and the Laurelton and Coney Island branch libraries. In 1953-55 he led the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects as its president.

   “Born in Romania, Harry Silverman studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (1922-24), and worked in the firms of Delano & Aldrich, Penrose V. Stout, and Goodhue Assocs.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1991

   The garage becomes a dwelling with room for one car, then a neighborhood bookshop

   Trucking firms left the building in the 1960s, and in 1991 the space was turned into a dwelling that kept room for one car. The West Village Committee Bookshop is listed there by 1997. A glass-and-metal storefront now fills the former garage door opening on Greenwich Street.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Further reading

• Nos. 704-706 Greenwich StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• What’s left of a Greenwich Street boarding stableEphemeral New York

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