The Archive

The Archive is a rental apartment building at 666 Greenwich Street in the West Village, Manhattan, managed by Rockrose Development. It occupies the landmarked former U.S. Appraisers’ Warehouse, a massive Romanesque Revival building from the end of the nineteenth century that was converted to apartments in the late 1980s, filling the block bounded by Greenwich, Christopher, Washington and Barrow Streets.

The Hudson River Park and the Christopher Street pier are a block west, and the West Village’s historic side streets surround it. Hudson Square is to the south. The 1 stops at Christopher Street-Sheridan Square and Houston Street, and the PATH stops at Christopher Street.

The building was completed in 1899 for the federal government as a warehouse for imported goods awaiting customs appraisal, and it was later used to store federal archives. Its massive Romanesque Revival brick walls and arched windows make it a designated New York City landmark. Rockrose converted it to 479 rental apartments in the late 1980s, and it is the largest rental building in the West Village in this index, with thick masonry walls and high ceilings unlike anything in a new building nearby.