4th Street Food Co-op

58 East 4th Street | East Village | built 1888

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

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1888
John D. Karst Jr. builds an Old Law tenement with a saloon on the ground floor
No. 58 East 4th Street is built in 1888 as an Old Law tenement for the owner John D. Karst Jr., to designs by Alexander I. Finkle. A saloon occupies the ground floor in the building's early years, with apartments above.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1888
Alexander Finkle gives a five-story tenement a German Renaissance Revival front topped by an eagle
Finkle's design for the five-story building uses brick, terra cotta and granite, with projecting brick piers capped by ornate terra-cotta capitals and granite columns. The roofline carries a modillioned cornice with a broken pediment framing an eagle figure. The ground floor has cast-iron storefront piers.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1995
The 4th Street Food Co-op takes over the storefront of the defunct Good Food Co-op
The Good Food Co-op, which started in 1973 as a buying club and later ran a storefront here, goes out of business in 1992. In 1995 the 4th Street Food Co-op, incorporated as Good Harvest Cooperative, takes its place. Wikipedia describes the member-run store as lower Manhattan's only food cooperative.
Source: Wikipedia

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