The Sky Lofts

Late 1920s printing factory, converted 2000, 21 residences across 16 floors.

145 Hudson Street, 10013

145 Hudson Street was built in the late 1920s as a printing factory, sixteen storeys of Art Deco, and converted to residential lofts in 2000 under the name Sky Lofts.

The sources disagree on whether it went up in 1928 or 1929, so this page does not settle the year.

What the conversion produced is loft floors rather than apartment plans: large open areas carrying the column grid of a factory, with window openings scaled for daylight over machinery rather than for rooms. In a building of this kind the columns are the fixed points and they fall on an industrial spacing, so partitions are set to that grid or held deliberately clear of it, and any plan begins by deciding which.

Print works were built for heavy floor loads, which in practice means substantial structure and slabs that carry more than a residential building needs. That is worth knowing before anything heavy is specified.

Within walking distance

Building facts

New York City Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output, version 26v1. Tax lot 1002147502.