41 Great Jones Street

The garden side of this maisonette faces south, and the kitchen and dining room look down into it through a 23-foot wall of windows. It is 4,241 square feet on three levels with a 304-square-foot garden of its own, three legal bedrooms and a fourth front room, four full bathrooms and two powder rooms.

The building is 27 feet wide, which the city's lot record confirms, and holds three apartments in all. This is the bottom one, the one the garden belongs to, in a store-and-loft of 1889-90 that Morris Adjmi Architects converted in 2018.

A bespoke entrance opens into a formal entry on the main level. The open Boffi kitchen and the dining area sit at the top of the double-height volume, looking down across the great room and out through the glass; the kitchen has quartzite counters, an oversized eat-in island and integrated Gaggenau appliances, two dishwashers and a wine refrigerator among them. Two further rooms on this level share a full bathroom and a powder room between them, and are offered as office, guest room, study, playroom or gym depending on who buys it.

A floating staircase descends to the great room at garden level: heated black granite slab floors, a full wet bar, a powder room, and a wall of glass that opens straight onto the planting. The bedroom level is above the entry - a primary suite with its own sitting area, a private balcony, an oversized walk-in closet, and a bathroom with Boffi dual vanities, an iTempo walk-in steam shower and a freestanding 72-inch Zuma tub. Two secondary bedrooms take en-suite bathrooms detailed in Calacatta marble with radiant heat underfoot, and a windowed sitting area and a full-size vented laundry finish the floor.

Through all three levels the loft fabric is left showing - exposed brick, the original iron beams - against 10-inch-wide European oak on the floors and the ceilings, Boffi cabinetry, Vola fixtures, Valli and Valli hardware, recessed lighting on Lutron switches and a nine-zone heating and cooling system. Private storage is included. Common charges run $4,834 a month and the real estate tax is $104,100 a year.

The listing does not name the original architect. The Landmarks Preservation Commission does. 41 Great Jones Street was built in 1889-90 to designs by the Herter Brothers, on new-building application 1461 of 1889, for the owners Harris and David Baum.

Peter and Francis William Herter arrived from Germany in the early 1880s and spent the six years between 1887 and 1893 drawing more than a hundred buildings in Manhattan, fifty of them tenements on the Lower East Side - tenements known at the time for being more spacious and better served than most of what went up beside them. Three years before this building they had been handed the commission for the Eldridge Street Synagogue, now a New York City landmark. This is a store-and-loft from the middle of that run, and the Commission's own appendix places it in the period of the brothers' greatest activity.

What they built is brick, four bays wide, the piers banded in smooth and rough-faced brownstone, with paneled cast-iron columns at the sidewalk carrying guilloche-decorated brackets for capitals. When the Commission surveyed the building in 2008 the cornice was gone, replaced with cement stucco, and the storefront had been filled in with brick and a through-wall air conditioner. The conversion put the wood-and-glass storefront and the metal cornice back from archival photographs, kept the cast-iron columns and the wrought-iron fire escape baskets, and added a floor on top: the building stood five stories when the Herters finished it and stands six now.

For most of the twentieth century this was a workplace, and the Commission's record keeps the inventory: garment, hat and cap manufacturers and their suppliers, along with basket, caster and wheel companies. After the war the garment and hat firms left, and Acme Sandblasting took the first floor and held it from about 1959.

In 1979 part of the building was converted to joint live/work quarters for artists, though the certificate of occupancy on that alteration did not issue until 1989, and from then on it was artists upstairs and manufacturing below. Blumenfeld Development Group bought the building in December 2013, when it was zoned for manufacturing and used mostly as offices, had its approvals by September 2015, and finished the three-apartment conversion with Adjmi in 2018. The city now carries the lot as a condominium of three units on six floors, 13,026 square feet in all.

Great Jones is two blocks long and this is the second of them, the stretch between Lafayette Street and the Bowery. On October 21 2025 the city co-named that stretch Jean-Michel Basquiat Way.

The sign went up in front of 57 Great Jones Street, the two-storey former carriage house that Andy Warhol owned and rented to Basquiat from 1983 until he died there in 1988. Fifty-seven is on the same block as this building and the same side of the street, a few doors east toward the Bowery. The listing mentions the co-naming. It does not mention that the address is on it.

The rest of the geography is the downtown convergence the brokers all cite and this one actually has - NoHo, SoHo, NoLita, Greenwich Village and the East Village meeting within a few blocks. The building has been inside the NoHo Historic District Extension since the Commission designated it on May 13 2008, fifty-six buildings on Bond, Great Jones and East 4th between Lafayette and the Bowery, which is why the facade had to come back the way it did.