The Standard, East Village

27 Cooper Square | also 25 Cooper Square | East Village | built 2006

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1962
January
LeRoi and Hettie Jones move in, drawing Beat writers and jazz musicians
In January 1962, record producer Marzette Watts, actor Ezra Lazley, and writers LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones moved into the long-vacant tenement at 27 Cooper Square. There the couple put out their magazine Yugen and books under their Totem Press imprint, and the address drew Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima alongside jazz musicians including Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman.
Source: Internet Archive
2006
Developers fold the old tenement into a new hotel
Rather than demolish the circa-1845 building where the Joneses and their circle once lived, the developers who built the Cooper Square Hotel worked the tenement into their design, using part of it for the lobby and concierge desk. Hettie Jones was allowed to go on living in her own apartment there.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
2011
The hotel around 27 Cooper Square rebrands as The Standard, East Village
Opened in December 2008 as the Cooper Square Hotel, the twenty-one-story tower designed by Carlos Zapata Studio became a Standard Hotel in 2011 and took the name The Standard, East Village. The building later added restaurateur Andre Balazs's Narcissa restaurant.
Source: Wikipedia

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