64 East 4th Street

East Village | built 1833

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.

1873
A Turn Verein president runs the house as a boarding house, and it later becomes the Metropolitan Assembly Rooms
In 1873 this Albion Place house was enlarged, a year after its neighbors at 66 and 68 were converted for the New York Turn Verein. For a time it served as a boarding house under William Winckle, the Turn Verein's president. It then became the Metropolitan Assembly Rooms, run by Victor Eckstein, who in 1889 demolished the house next door at no. 62 to build a purpose-made assembly hall.
“…adjacent building at 64 East 4th Street underwent similar alterations the following year in 1873; for a time it functioned as a boarding house under the supervision of William Winckle…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is founded in Labor Lyceum Hall here
In 1900 the building was in use as Labor Lyceum Hall, and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was founded there that year. The house dated to the 1830s as a Greek Revival row house and had held the Metropolitan Assembly Rooms in the 1870s and 1880s.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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