This 12-story apartment building constructed ca.1985 replaced a building which housed the Hansa Gallery, one of the “East 10th Street Galleries” started by Wolf Kahn. A prominent Book Row seller was also located at a building formerly here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Village Preservation has multiple oral histories with significant figures in the arts, literature, commerce, preservation, activism, and philanthropy which focus on, connect to, or mention sites in this area. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This 12-story apartment building constructed ca.1985 replaced a building which housed the Hansa Gallery, one of the “East 10th Street Galleries” started by Wolf Kahn. A prominent Book Row seller was also located at a building formerly here.

An incredible array of sites in the area are connected to the great artists and art movements of the last century and a half. In the mid-20th century, this area was ground zero for the New York School of artists, who shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

Since at least the 1890s and through the 20th century, this area was the center of the bookselling industry in New York, centered along Fourth Avenue as well as Broadway and University Place, and probably had the highest concentration of booksellers in the world. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.