204 East 13th Street

East Village | built 1800

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1. 1875

   Philip Seiter replaces a widow's house with a Neo-Grec flat-and-store building

   Builder Philip J. Seiter buys the leasehold at 204 East 13th Street in April 1875 and replaces a four-story private house, home to widow Elizabeth Burke, with a five-story flat-and-store building. Its Neo-Grec design has a cast-iron storefront topped by a projecting cornice of deep corbels.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1958

   Spring

   Tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin, later a resident here, moves to New York

   Tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin, born in Denison, Texas, in 1930, moves to New York with his wife Jane Wilkie and their two children, and later makes his home at 204 East 13th Street. In the mid-1960s he leads his own quartet and records with Randy Weston, Dexter Gordon and Charles Mingus. He dies in 1970 at age 39.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1968

   Pianist Randy Weston, a resident here, moves permanently to Morocco

   Pianist and composer Randy Weston, born in Brooklyn in 1926, lives at 204 East 13th Street before moving permanently to Morocco in 1968 with his wife Fatoumata Mbengue. In 2018 The New York Times calls him an "esteemed pianist" whose work argued that jazz is, at its core, an African music.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1976

   The building's cast-iron front appears in Taxi Driver

   The building's 1875 cast-iron front and its entrance door to the upper floors appear in Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver. Harvey Keitel's character Sport interacts with Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle in several scenes there. The storefront's elaborate cornice is removed at some point in the later 20th century.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• Home to Jazz Legends - 204 East 13th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• 204 East 13th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks

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