Hebrew Union College (HUC-JIR New York campus)
1 West 4th Street | also 699 Broadway | NoHo | built 1979
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1962
New York University clears five older buildings from the northwest corner of Broadway and West 4th Street
Between 1962 and 1970 New York University tore down the five buildings that stood on this corner site. They ranged from two and a half to nine stories and dated from the nineteenth century, with homes and businesses among them. NYU then sold the cleared land to the Hebrew Union College, which built here in the late 1970s.
- 1979
Hebrew Union College builds a modern five-story campus on West 4th Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the Hebrew Union College the oldest and biggest Jewish institution of higher learning in the Western Hemisphere. It built this college building in 1978-79, to a design by Abramovitz, Harris & Kingsland, in concrete block faced with brick. The building has horizontal strip windows, a three-story entrance on West 4th Street and a one-story chapel at the corner of Mercer Street.
- 2025
Hebrew Union College agrees to sell its Greenwich Village building to NYU for $75.5 million
The college announced on January 30, 2025 that it would sell the building, its home since 1979, to neighboring New York University for $75.5 million. HUC said it would stay until sometime in 2027 and move to a renovated landmark building in Manhattan, using the proceeds for the purchase and its endowment. NYU said it planned to use the building for classrooms and was weighing an executive education center.
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