My affinity for stolid brick buildings, whether factories or dwellings, has been stated repeatedly in FNY. Greenpoint is one of those Brooklyn neighborhoods that is changing rapidly, with glassy residential towers emerging ever more frequently since a zoning change in 2005. The area used to be a sleepy manufacturing-residential region, of which today’s building on Lorimer, just off Manhattan Avenue facing McCarren Park, is a representative. one of their more popular products was Royledge shelf liner, used to create decorative borders on shelf edges.
The building once housed Royal Lace Paper Works. One of their more popular products was Royledge shelf liner, used to create decorative borders on shelf edges.“Lace paper” describes a variety of decorative paper products resembling lace. Paper Lace, of course, recounted The Night Chicago Died.
At times like this, I turn to the Indispensable Walter Grutchfield, whose powers of research vastly eclipse my own. He recounts that Royal was in business as early as 1899 at 468 Lorimer, where the Brooklyn Eagle reported that a fire broke out. A second fire further devastated the paper works in 1912, which had by then moved here to 842 Lorimer. The company was acquired by Standard Packaging Corporation, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, in 1951.
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2/27/23