842 Greenwich Street

also 46 Gansevoort Street, 48 Gansevoort Street | West Village | built 1939

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1938
Spanish American Mercantile Corporation builds a Moderne produce market on a parcel of five old buildings
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The New York Savings Bank foreclosed in 1934 on the parcel at Greenwich and Gansevoort streets, which then consisted of five buildings from the 1800s. The Spanish American Mercantile Corporation bought it in 1938 and built a Moderne market building in 1938-39 for wholesale produce and fruit dealers, with offices on the upper floor. The corporation was linked to the Spanish American Importation Company and the Spanish American Trucking & Moving Corporation, which were based next door at 838-840 Greenwich Street.
“…built this modem market building in 1938-39 for wholesale fruit and produce dealers, with upstairs offices.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1973
Holland Beef turns the Gansevoort Street market building into a meatpacking plant
After World War II the building's tenants shifted from mostly produce firms to a variety of companies, many of them meat distributors. In 1972 Holland Bros. Realty and its Holland Beef Corp., which also owned 838-840 Greenwich Street next door, acquired the building, and in 1973 it was altered as a meatpacking plant. The property was foreclosed in 1977, and by the time of the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report it housed two restaurants.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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