128 East 10th Street
also 37 Stuyvesant Street | East Village | built 1861
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1861
An Anglo-Italianate townhouse is built at the prow of a triangular lot on Stuyvesant Street
Developer Mathias Banta bought the former Stuyvesant family land in 1858, and construction of the surrounding row began in 1859. The architecture of the group is attributed to James Renwick Jr. No. 128, at the point of the triangle, is a four-and-a-half-story Anglo-Italianate townhouse whose stone-faced prow wall has decorative quoins and a large ornamented bay window.
- 1885
The house becomes a training school for Christian workers
In 1885, Mrs. W. H. Osborn leased 128 East 10th Street to the New York City Mission and Tract Society, which housed students of its Training School for Christian Workers here. Before that, the house had been a boarding house run by William A. Boylston by 1878, after Deborah Sinclair bought it in 1873.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1959
A young Philip Roth rents a basement apartment at 128 East 10th Street
In 1959, soon after moving to New York, the novelist Philip Roth was listed as living in the two-room basement apartment here, for which he signed a two-year lease at $80 a month. In his autobiography The Facts, he recalled the apartment as ideally placed between the panhandlers of the Bowery and the bialys on the tables at Ratner's.
- 2005
The film The Interpreter uses the house as a character's apartment
In 2005, the political thriller The Interpreter used this house as the apartment of Sylvia Broome, the character played by Nicole Kidman. The house's brief moment on screen is one of its better-known claims to fame.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The 1861 Pie-Shaped No. 128 East 10th Street Daytonian in Manhattan
- 128 East 10th Street; 37 Stuyvesant StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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