90 Morton Street

1912 printing factory, converted, 35 residences across 12 floors.

90 Morton Street, 10014

90 Morton Street was built in 1912 as a printing factory for the Hort family press and converted to 35 residences, with additional floors added above the original structure.

In the lower part of the building the original frame is the finish. Cast iron columns and concrete beams were kept and painted rather than boxed in, and ceilings there run to about twelve feet four inches. The window openings are large and multi paned, in the casement pattern the building was given for daylight on the factory floor. The added upper floors are a different thing entirely, with cantilevered dormers forming terraces for the apartments at the top.

So the building has two conditions and they do not share a rulebook. In the original floors, columns and beams are fixed, visible and structural, and a plan works around them. In the added floors the geometry is new and the terrace doors govern the perimeter instead.

Which of the two an apartment sits in decides almost everything about how it can be fitted out, and that is the first thing to establish.

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Building facts

New York City Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output, version 26v1. Tax lot 1006027502.