Greenwich Arms
85 4th Avenue | also 79 East 10th Street, 110 East 11th Street, 77 East 10th Street | East Village | built 1959
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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.
- 1950
Willem de Kooning lives in a loft at 85 Fourth Avenue
An earlier building at 85 Fourth Avenue, the address the current tower carries, holds a loft where the painter Willem de Kooning lives in the 1940s and 1950s. It is one of the row houses and commercial buildings later replaced by the Greenwich Arms.
- 1957
H.I. Feldman designs the X-shaped Greenwich Arms
The X-shaped apartment building at 85 Fourth Avenue is built in 1957 as the Greenwich Arms, designed by H.I. Feldman for the East 10th Corporation. It replaces a number of three- and four-story nineteenth-century row houses and commercial buildings along Fourth Avenue and East 10th and East 11th Streets.
Further reading
- 85 East 10th Street; 81-89 East 10th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 85 Fourth Ave; 75-91 Fourth Ave; 75-79 East 10th Street; 100-110 East 11th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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