101 2nd Avenue

also 240 East 6th Street | East Village | built 1880

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1876
Frederick Pflueger buys a small shop at Second Avenue and East 6th Street, then replaces it with two buildings
In September 1876 the developer Frederick Pflueger bought a single-story shop, the earlier building on the southwest corner where Second Avenue meets East 6th Street. Pflueger belonged to the real estate firm C. & F. Pflueger, run with his brother Christopher, though he and Annie, his wife, often did deals alone. He hired architect Julius Boekell to design two apartment-and-store buildings on the site, a corner building on the avenue and a slightly smaller one on East 6th Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1880
Julius Boekell's corner building for Pflueger rises in 1880 as the twin of the East 6th Street house
The corner building at 101 Second Avenue went up under a permit of 1880, three years after its almost identical neighbor at 238 East 6th Street. Both are by Julius Boekell for Frederick Pflueger, and a one-story shop built in the light well links them. The five-story Queen Anne building has stone quoins and a roof cornice with scrolled brackets and a corner pendant, and city permits show its Block Drug Store neon sign was installed in 1945.
“The two building are nearly identical and were designed and constructed by the same parties in 1877 (238 East 6th Street) and 1880 (101 Second Avenue).”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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