143 East 13th Street

East Village | built 1865

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.

1863
A four-story Italianate flat-and-store building replaces Dr. Budd's house
In 1863, the high-stooped house where Dr. Bernard L. Budd had lived in the 1850s was demolished and replaced by a four-story Italianate building at 143 East 13th Street. It held two apartments per floor above stores flanking a central residential entrance, and was one of the area's first multi-family buildings. Its cast-iron storefront and three sets of original double doors survive.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1894
Jean A. Le Roy opens the Acme Exchange, selling kinetoscope supplies, at 143 East 13th Street
Jean A. Le Roy opened the Acme Exchange in a ground-floor space here in 1894, among the first film exchanges to sell kinetoscope supplies and film. In 1896 he began making portable X-ray outfits, advertised in The Electrical World. The Acme Exchange stayed in the building into the early 1900s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2013
The city names this stretch of East 13th Street Cornell Edwards Way for a longtime shopkeeper
Cornell Edwards ran The Flower Stall from this building and, with his longtime partner Bill Curry, bought it in the late 1960s. Edwards died in 2011. In 2013, this stretch of East 13th Street was named Cornell Edwards Way in recognition of his dedication to the East Village community.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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