117 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1907

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.

1845
William Ogilvie owns a house on this lot by 1845
Tax records show that this lot, along with others to the west, belonged to William Ogilvie, and that it carried a house by 1845. It was an earlier building on the site. The house was gone by 1907, when Joseph Harbater and Solomon Silk bought the lot and the one beside it to build the present tenement.
“…was owned by William Ogilvie and had a house by 1845.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
May 6
Joseph Harbater and Solomon Silk buy two lots at once and merge them for a new tenement
Harbater and Silk bought lots 43 and 44 on East 7th Street on the same day and combined them into a single lot, 43. On it Bernstein & Bernstein designed a six-story Renaissance Revival tenement, filed in 1907. Its facade has terra-cotta lion's head medallions, brick quoins and a galvanized-iron cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1983
The East 7th Street Gallery appears at 117-119 East 7th Street on a 1983 map of East Village galleries
Village Preservation's Building Blocks entry for 117-119 East 7th Street cites a map of East Village art galleries from 1983, which places the East 7th Street Gallery at this address. The building was a tenement put up in 1907 for Joseph Harbater and Solomon Silk, so the gallery occupied space in what had been built as housing.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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