28-30 East 4th Street (New York City, New York)

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8-story Neo-Classical residential building completed in 1902. Designed by Frank Borsody as a store-and-loft building, it has two narrow windows in the center bay, and two wider windows in the outer bays. There is a 2-story rusticated limestone base, with most of the ground floor filled by a brown cast-iron storefront with a decorative wrought-iron grille over the center doorway. The storefront is topped by a cast-iron lintel with egg-and-dart molding, fleur-de-lis plaques, foliated panels, dentils and swags. At the 2nd floor the limestone piers are topped by cartouches and scrolled, foliate consoles at the corners and flanking the center bay.

The upper floors are clad in yellow brick. The piers at the 3rd-6th floors are rusticated, with limestone cartouches at the top of the 6th floor. The windows have flared stone lintels with scrolled keystones, and there is a molded stone course above the 6th floor. The 7th-8th floors also have brick piers, but without the rustication; there are more cartouches at the 8th floor, where the windows are round-arched. The original roof cornice has been replaced by a brick parapet.

The exposed upper portion of the east elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick; as is the western elevation except for most of the bottom four floors, which are covered in smooth stucco, where an adjoining building once stood. The top four floors have random windows.

From 1929 to the 1970s, the building was occupied by companies in the printing, garment, hat and toy industries, as well as a music publisher and interior decorator in the 1950s. By around 1970, the building's commercial spaces were mostly vacant, and loft dwellers began moving in. The ground floor (and neighboring lot) are occupied by Plantworks nursery.