444 East 58th Street
also 446 East 58th Street | Sutton Place | built 1920
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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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- 1901
A six-story walk-up rental for the middle class opens on East 58th Street
Developers Abraham Levy and Isaac Haft built this Beaux-Arts building for $55,000, with George F. Pelham as architect. It was planned as a walk-up rental for middle-class tenants, on a block where brownstones had gone up in the 1870s. It had no elevator until one was added in 1956.
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- 1928
An investor buys the building planning to redevelop, then resells it
Gustav Lewkowitz and Herman Fuld owned the building for 22 years, until it sold in September 1928 to investor Lawrence T. Berliner. Berliner bought it expecting to put up a more modern building. Three months later he sold it to Nicholas Zurla, and the 1901 building stayed standing.
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- 1932
The River Book House opens as a neighborhood bookshop
Booksellers E. R. Armstrong and J. M. Wolcott opened the River Book House at 444 East 58th Street on May 7, 1932. Publishers Weekly announced it as a new neighborhood bookshop meant to serve the growing Sutton Place community, and the name came from the nearby East River. In the mid-1940s the building also housed Dr. Howard Rusk's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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- 1984
The building converts to a housing cooperative
On September 7, 1984, the building became a cooperative, known as 444-446 E 58th Owners Corp. It had started as a walk-up rental and gained an elevator in 1956. In July 2015 the co-op sold its air rights to the developers of the neighboring Sutton 58 tower for $16,912,626.
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