28 East 4th Street

NoHo | built 1902

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1901

    Physician Frank Borsody is listed as architect of the new loft building at 28-30 East 4th Street

    In 1901 Frank Borsody designed an eight-story store-and-loft building here as both owner and architect, at a time when older dwellings nearby were being converted or replaced for commercial use. Borsody was a general-practice physician, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission thinks his ideas were probably turned into a finished design by the Louis Weber Building Co., whose head was a German-born architect and engineer. Weber's firm took title the following year.

    “Borsody, although listed as architect, was in fact a physician in general practice…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1929

    Printers, garment makers, hat makers and toy firms fill 28-30 East 4th Street from the 1920s into the 1970s

    City directories from 1929 into the 1970s show the building occupied by companies in several trades: printing, garments, hats and caps, and toys. During the 1950s music publishers and an interior decorator joined them.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1986

    Artists turn 28-30 East 4th Street into live/work lofts as residents come to outnumber businesses

    As New York's manufacturing base shrank in the 1960s, loft dwellers began moving into the vacant space here, and by the mid-1970s residents outnumbered businesses. A 1986 alteration converted the building to joint live/work quarters, and a housing corporation had taken ownership in 1981. The ground floor remained commercial, and the upper floors stayed home to working artists.

    “…residents outnumbered businesses by the mid-1970s and it remains joint live/work quarters for artists with commercial ground floor…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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