59 4th Avenue

also 105A East 9th Street | East Village | built 1900

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

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1897
Neville & Bagge design an eight-story commercial building for Jno. K. Todd
Architects Neville & Bagge design 59 Fourth Avenue for owner Jno. K. Todd. The eight-story, three-bay building is faced in white brick laid in a rusticated pattern, with simple cornices above the first, second, and sixth floors. Ornamented spandrels sit between the seventh- and eighth-floor windows.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1960
Pageant Books republishes Henry Roth's novel Call It Sleep
Pageant Books Inc., a small publisher and secondhand bookstore at 59 Fourth Avenue, reissues Henry Roth's 1934 novel Call It Sleep in 1960. The reissue is credited with bringing the book wider recognition as a work of American literature and a portrait of Jewish immigrant life on the Lower East Side. The firm also issued a Library of Congress book catalogue in 1958 and Gutenberg Bible facsimiles in 1961.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1988
The building is converted from storage and offices to apartments
In 1988 the former storage, office, and warehouse building at 59 Fourth Avenue becomes a multi-family residence. The ground floor is given a sleek modern storefront with a separate entrance to the apartments above.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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