9-19 East 4th Street (New York City, New York)

 apartment building, 1888_construction

 Upload a photo

A 6-story and a 5-story residential building joined internally. 9 East 4th was completed in 1888, designed by Cleverdon & Putzel as a store-and-loft building in the Northern Renaissance-revival style. 11-19 East 4th was completed in the same year by the same architect in the Neo-Grec style. They were joined in 1924.

The 9 East 4th section is four bays wide, of cast-iron. The white-painted ground floor has slender columns with bracketed caps supporting arched lintels, fluted piers with bracketed caps, and an iron cornice. The grey-green upper floors have slender columns with scrolled brackets, paneled piers, molded hoods and fascia, segmental-arched windows, foliate bands, and a wrought-iron fire escape. The elaborate roof cornice has a central triangular pediment, blind arcade, scrolled brackets, and dentils.

The larger section of the building, at 11-19 East 4th, spans 15 bays, also cast-iron. Its ground floor has piers and columns with stylized caps, historic transoms over show windows, and crowning fascia with foliation and swags. The white upper floors feature fluted piers with bracketed caps, slender columns with foliate caps, bracketed moldings, paneled spandrels, and a white wrought-iron fire escape. On the 6-bay Lafayette Street side, the south bay has cast-iron construction similar to East 4th Street. The other bays are clad in red brick, with stone sills and lintels and continuous bands, capped by a continuation of the dentiled roof cornice.

The ground floors are occupied by New Era, Il Girasole spa, Rooq Fine Art & Framing, Other Music, and La Colombe coffee shop.