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About 111 Fourth Avenue
One of the pioneer projects in expanding luxury housing east from Greenwich Village towards Union Square, this condominium conversion of an utilitarian loft building was developed by Teitelbaum Holdings Inc., and designed by Warner, Burns & Lunde.
The residential conversion offered 11 different apartment layouts on each floor. The floors are 13-and-a-half feet high and have 10-ft.-high windows.
Many of the apartments have "open kitchens," sleeping lofts, some of which are "built-in" and some are which are "furniture," and therefore not counted by the city as "zoning rooms," an important restriction as far as city regulation for conversions and new construction.
The building was built and designed by Starrett & Van Vleeck in 1925 for the International Tailoring Company and includes terra-cotta decoration of sewers.
The conversion was completed in 1977 and offered 180 apartments on 13 floors. While the building had no garage, or health club, amenities then considered not very important, most of its apartments had sleeping lofts because of their tall ceilings.
In the years since, the area has lost many of its famous bookstores on Fourth Avenue, but many more buildings have been converted to residential use and Union Square has been transformed from a drug haven to an attractive urban park in the midst of trendy and popular restaurants and upscale retailing.
As a result, the large apartments here have become quite desirable.
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