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72 EAST 4th STREET

72 East 4th Street. This single story building with a mezzanine in the rear, once the maintenance shop for HPD, is currently empty.

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) proposes to purchase the property at 72 East 4th Street (located directly across the street from NYTW’s performance facilities), occupying the building as a production facility. The first floor would be used as an accessory workshop for scenery and properties. The mezzanine would be used as a costume-making studio. A small extension would be built to serve as offices for the theatre’s production staff.

As it nears the end of its five-year expansion process, NYTW is confronting programmatic limitations and physical constraints due to the capacity of its current facilities. 72 East 4th Street would serve as a necessary extension of the programs that NYTW is currently presenting. Community stabilization would also be enhanced by our efforts, and economic and cultural benefits would resonate throughout the neighborhood as a result of the increased activity generated by the utilization of this currently dormant building.

Founded in 1979, New York Theatre Workshop is committed to the development of innovative theatre by supporting theatre artists at all stages of their careers, providing an environment where work can be created free from the artistic compromise and forbidding financial demands often associated with commercial ventures. Over the past two decades, NYTW has evolved to become a significant force in New York City's vibrant cultural life and is now recognized as one of the leading producing theatres of original work in America.

NYTW is renowned for producing intelligent and difficult plays that expand the boundaries of the stage and in some new and meaningful way address issues that are critical to our time. The theatre boasts a long list of acclaimed work that includes Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul, Martha Clarke's Vienna:Lusthaus (revisited), Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest and Far Away, John Guare's Lydie Breeze, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, and Jonathan Larson’s Rent.

Since 1992, New York Theatre Workshop has owned its properties at 79 and 83 E. 4th Street and with the help of a successful capital campaign, paid off the underlying mortgage in 1998. 83 E. 4th Street houses NYTW’s 188-seat theater, while 79 E. 4th Street houses NYTW’s administrative offices.

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Fourth Arts Block
c/o Cooper Square Committee
61 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
Contact: Tamara Greenfield, Executive Director
(212) 228-4670