Zero Irving
124 East 14th Street | also 0 Irving Place, 120 East 14th Street, 118 East 14th Street | East Village | built 2021
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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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- 1909
An earlier theater on this site, William Fox's City Theatre, opens with 2,267 seats
William Fox builds the City Theatre in 1909, designed in the French Renaissance style by theater specialist Thomas W. Lamb. It seats 2,267 people and shows both vaudeville and motion pictures, making it one of the first large New York theaters to show films.
- 1952
The earlier City Theatre on this site is demolished
The City Theatre is demolished in 1952, after more than four decades of showing vaudeville and films. Its 14th Street facade appears in a 1938 Berenice Abbott photograph from her Changing New York series. A two-story commercial building for the city's Department of General Services is built on the lot in 1993.
- 2018
The city approves rezoning to build a technology hub on the site
The city's land-use review process unanimously approves the rezoning of the site, then home to a P.C. Richard & Son store, in 2018. Andrew Rasiej, who co-founded Civic Hall in 2014 with Micah Sifry, had proposed the project. Civic Hall had been in an 18,500-square-foot office at 156 Fifth Avenue.
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- 2023
Zero Irving opens as a 21-story technology and education hub
The 21-story Zero Irving tower is completed in 2023, developed by RAL Development and designed by Davis Brody Bond. In November Mayor Eric Adams announces the opening of the Civic Hall space, calling it "a laboratory for the entire country." Civic Hall occupies seven floors and rents classroom space to workforce-development groups.
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Further reading
- 124 East 14th Street, 116-124 East 14th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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