There's a new listing for 61 Fourth Ave. via Massey Knakal.
Let's take a look at the pitch:
Located on the east side of 4th Avenue between East 9th and East 10th Streets, this six story mixed-use building will be delivered vacant. This is an excellent condominium conversion opportunity or a live-investment given its centrally located between the East Village and Greenwich Village. Although the current C of O is a mix of office and art studio space, the building could be converted to residential as-of-right. The building is across the street from Facebook’s new office at 770 Broadway and one block from 51 Astor Place which will soon be the headquarters of IBM Watson and 1stdibs.
Asking price: $15.5 million.
And apparently the push continues to expand "Midtown South" into a neighborhood that already enjoys several names ... the accompanying marketing materials show that 61 Fourth Ave. is aka 61 Park Ave. South ...
Previously on EV Grieve:
East Village — the new Midtown?
Facebook is moving into the neighborhood; Midtown South expands its boundaries, apparently
61 Fourth Avenue is where former Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset lived until his passing in 2012. He ran Blue Moon Books and the Evergreen Review from that building.
ReplyDeleteI like this little huddle of survivors - for some reason I often stop to admire them...
ReplyDeletePaul Curtis had his mime studio in that building. Later, Stefan Niedzialkowski. At one time there were (I think) five mime schools in New York but I'm only remembering four now: the two I mentioned, Zwi Kanar, and Moni Yakim. The Adaptors came later, or maybe they were the fifth.
ReplyDeleteI think Paul Curtis owned that building. That's what someone told me once. He died a couple of years ago.
61 was home to the bookstore Orientalia on the second floor (with storage on the third) - after they moved from east 12th street next to the italian restaurant that had singing waiters (i can't remember the name.
ReplyDelete63 Fourth Avenue was the site of bookstore Biblo & Tannen, and Canaveral Press. I think that address is the doorway at the left on this building. After the bookstore closed, Jack Tannen moved to Florida; Jack Biblo, the other owner, retired to Brooklyn Heights, where he opened a used book store at the corner of Middagh and Hicks Street, which was only opened on weekends. This address is famous in the annals of bookselling and of science fiction and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
ReplyDeleteI remember that space as a bookstore called Esoterica, where Ibiza Kids is now. That was in the late 80s or early 90s. They had some great stuff, I wish they were still there.
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ReplyDeleteAsti's. That was the name of the place with the opera-singing waiters. they also told you what to order, you didn't ask...at least that was my experience. I last ate there in winter of 1985 or early 1986, but it hung on until 2000 or so.
from what I understand the Grove-Evergreen publisher Barney Rosset (who published Miller, Burroughs, Beckett, Genet, etc.) did a mural during the last years of his life right on the wall on one of floors of the building. I saw this at www.barneyswall.com
ReplyDeleteThis address is also the location of the first "Happening" which was staged at the Rueben Gallery in October of 1959. The title of the work was "18 Happenings in 6 Parts" created by Allan Kaprow. So much history in this one building.
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