69 East 4th Street

East Village | built 1899

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

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1899
Melfero Brothers build a six-story tenement for twenty-two families over ground-floor shops
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Architect Michael Bernstein designed 69 East 4th Street in 1899 for the Melfero Brothers, a Renaissance Revival building of brick, stone and terra cotta. It originally held twenty-two families above its shops. By about 1988 the original storefront had been converted to residential space, so the ground floor no longer holds a shop.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1959
Winter
Hunter S. Thompson stays at 69 East 4th Street for a winter in 1959, sharing with a friend
Village Preservation's Building Blocks survey says the writer Hunter S. Thompson stayed here with a friend during the winter of 1959, a detail it draws from Proud Highway, his published book of letters covering 1955 to 1967. The six-story tenement was then about sixty years old and had been built for families living above shops.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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