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Tribeca Then and Now: The Unknowns (Part 2)
As I’ve mentioned in the previous roundups of Jane Freeman’s photos from the 1980s and 1990s, many were taken at locations I’ve been unable to identify. Feel free to weigh in, but please don’t just toss out a guess and leave me to verify it. Go to the actual building or street view on Google Maps and see if the photo lines up with what’s there today. N.B. It’s possible that some of these are not Tribeca.
Previously:
••• Franklin Street
••• W. Broadway and Staple
••• South Tribeca
••• Hubert, Collister, Beach, and Ericsson
••• Hudson Street
••• When Hollywood Built a Fake Diner in Tribeca
••• Washington Street and Environs
••• Upper Greenwich Street
••• Lower Greenwich Street
••• The Unknowns (Part 1) / NOTE: Four remain unsolved
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IMAGE #13
From James: “59 Murray Street, New York Dolls.” I asked how he knew, and he said it was “the bar sign and the reflection of their awning (‘NEW YORK’ but reversed) in the window. They removed the window in the center bay.”
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IMAGE #14
From James: “117-119 Mercer Street in Soho.”
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IMAGE #15
From James: “Images 15-17 are probably the building 461-469 Greenwich Street, with 16 on the corner at Desbrosses.” I wasn’t able to find a contemporary image that matches #15.
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IMAGE #16
See above.
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IMAGE #17
See above. The current image is Greenwich, just above Desbrosses.
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IMAGE #18
From James: “South side of Laight east of Washington. 401 Washington a.k.a. 73 Laight a.k.a. Sterling Mason.”
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IMAGE #19
From Robert Ripps: “#19 is now part of Fischer Mills, 395/397 Greenwich Street, currently a dry cleaner & ‘wichcraft. Although it is hard to see by Google Street view, I found a few pictures I took of the scene in 1991, but they are predigital, so I will have to try to get one scanned at some point to show how it matches—I can see the graffiti in my shot, and it is a perfect match.”
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IMAGE #20
From James: “79 Laight Street, south side of Laight west of Washington.”
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IMAGE #21
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IMAGE #22
This is 39 Greene, says James.
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Images 15-17 are probably the building 461-469 Greenwich Street, with 16 on the corner at Desbrosses St.
Image 22 is 39 Greene Street.
Image 18 is south side of Laight east of Washington. 401 Washington aka 73 Laight aka Sterling Mason.
Image 13 is 59 Murray Street, New York Dolls.
Image 20 is 79 Laight Street, south side of Laight west of Washington
Image 14. Believe this is 74 Leonard. The Knitting Factory closed its doors in 2008. In 2009 Julia Roberts filmed a scene from the film ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ in the Spring of 2009 while the building was still vacant. It was later restored and turned into condos.
The columns don’t match. It’s possible they were replaced with something totally different, but that would be pretty unusual.
Totally possible. They could have restored the columns. The steps seem to be the same.
I do not see this as 74 Leonard. The storefront cast iron does not match, especially visibly in the capitals. The shape and configuration of the rectangular columns between and around the round columns does not match. The configuration of the fire escape brackets, water table, and capitals does not match. the second story facade does not match.
Further it is in a Landmark District designated in December 1992. No way do they get permission to alter it so drastically from some other style.
Lastly I doubt it was ever in any other style that what it is right now. 72-74 Leonard is continuous with its neighbor 76-78. They share the same style of cast iron storefront, which was described in the designation report as the original storefront cast iron.
#19 is now part of Fischer Mills, 395/397 Greenwich Street, currently a dry cleaner & ‘wichcraft (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7205099,-74.010092,3a,15y,52.05h,88.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjKL_ng8YJimCaLNMdeFlaA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). Although it is hard to see by Google Street view, I found a few pictures I took of the scene in 1991, but ithey are predigital, so I will have to try to get one scanned at some point to show how it matches- I can see the graffiti in my shot, and it is a perfect match.
Do you think image 21 could be the Beach St façade of the same building?
I don’t believe so- I don’t remember that street as pictured, plus it looks like the sunlight is hitting it directly, and if it was the south side of Beach, no way it would get direct light.
Image 14 is 117-119 Mercer Street in Soho.