179 East 93rd Street
Carnegie Hill | built 1910
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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.
- 1895
The young Marx Brothers grow up in this East 93rd Street tenement
From about 1895 until 1909 the Marx family lived here, and the brothers who became vaudeville and film stars spent their formative years on this block. Harpo later called it the first real home they ever knew. Late in life Groucho paid for new tiles in the building's common areas, which residents still call the Groucho tiles.
Source: Untapped New York
- 1896
Young Harpo Marx quits school after being thrown from a window
At age eight, a gang of Irish boys throws Harpo Marx out of a window at P.S. 86, amid tension between the school's Irish and Jewish students in the East 93rd Street neighborhood. Marx decides on the spot never to return, ending his formal schooling while the family still lives on East 93rd Street.
Source: Ephemeral New York
- 2010
Neighbors push to add the Marx Brothers' home to the Carnegie Hill Historic District
In July 2010 the landmarks committee of Community Board 8 voted to support adding 179 East 93rd Street to the Carnegie Hill Historic District, a campaign by the East 93rd Street Beautification Association backed by Woody Allen and Harpo's son Bill Marx. The next step was a vote of the full community board.
Source: dnainfo.com
Further reading
- There’s a Marx Brothers Playground in YorkvilleEphemeral New York
- Harpo Marx: a poor street kid on East 93rd StreetEphemeral New York
- The Marx Brothers’ Yorkville tenement homeEphemeral New York
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