340 East 4th Street
also 344 East 4th Street | East Village | built 1900
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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.
- 1899
Adolf Wandel builds a five-story old-law tenement designed by Samuel Sass
Wandel's tenement, then addressed 342 East 4th Street, rose alongside an identical building erected at the same time next door at 344 East 4th Street. Both were old-law tenements, a housing type common on the Lower East Side before 1901 reforms required more light and air in new construction. Sass's building survives today largely intact.
- 1937
Two neighboring tenements are joined under one address, 340 East 4th Street
Around 1937 the separately built tenements on adjoining lots were combined into a single building and given the unified address of 340 East 4th Street. The original front entrance was filled in with stone, and new doors were cut into the facade to serve the merged structure.
Further reading
- 346 East 4th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 340 East 4th Street (Building 2)Village Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 340 East 4th Street (Building 1)Village Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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