Port Jervis’ Front Street to Get Another New Business: Foundry 42

Building will have workshop, furniture store, and performance space

A design of the front of 42 Front Street in Port Jervis, the building for a new business, Foundry 42, a furniture workshop and retail store with an event space. Arbuckle Industries

PORT JERVIS—If Cooper Boone had not waited five more minutes for his tardy real estate agent, the landscape of Port Jervis’ Front Street might have been a little different.

Boone had been waiting an hour for a real estate agent to show him 42 Front Street, the former Tri-State Fitness building. He was about to leave, thinking he would buy another Front Street building, when a friend who was with him at the time convinced him to wait another five minutes.

“We did, and we walked in, and I was like ‘Oh my god, this is it,’” Boone recalled. “I don’t know why, it was just a feeling.”

The building, built in 1940, has two floors and a finished basement. All the floors have tin ceilings, sturdy concrete walls, and on the top floor, large windows in the front and the back.

“It has really, really good bones,” Boone said.

Now the first floor, which before had only a glass door and no windows, is awash with light.