117 East 10th Street

also 115 East 10th Street | East Village | built 1870

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

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1943
Dwight and Nancy Macdonald run the magazine Politics from their apartment at 117 East 10th Street
From 1943 until 1949 Dwight Macdonald and his wife Nancy, published the antiwar magazine Politics out of their apartment at 117 East 10th Street. Its pages carried work by Andre Gide, Albert Camus, Simone Weil, John Berryman, Marianne Moore and Mary McCarthy, among others. Over the decades the couple lived there, guests at the apartment included T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos and Alexander Calder.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1953
Anarchist Nancy Macdonald, of 117 East 10th Street, founds Spanish Refugee Aid
Nancy Macdonald, an anarchist who lived at 117 East 10th Street, founded Spanish Refugee Aid in 1953. The organization was meant to help the non-Communist exiles of Franco's regime. She and her husband Dwight had published the magazine Politics from the apartment until 1949, and he went on to write for The New Yorker from 1951 to 1971.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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