205 Chrystie Street

also 19 Stanton Street | Lower East Side | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1876

    April 7

    Julius Boekell files plans for a five-story store and tenement at Chrystie and Stanton

    Architect Julius Boekell filed plans on April 7, 1876 for the building for developer H. Riffel at a cost of $15,000. The residential entrance sits at the rear, at 19 Stanton Street, above cast iron storefronts. The red brick facade mixes Italianate and neo-Grec detail, and the building held fifteen apartments for working-class tenants.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1879

    August 28

    A family arriving from yellow-fever-stricken Memphis alarms the tenement

    A Mrs. Rauch moved into a second-floor flat at 19 Stanton Street with seven children and showed symptoms of yellow fever the next day. A neighbor alerted the Board of Health, but the doctor accepted her claim of a cold. An Evening Post reporter who spoke to her in German got her to admit the family came from Memphis and had burned their clothes and bedding before leaving.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1899

    January

    Police list the poolroom at 19 Stanton Street as an opium joint

    A Police Department report on suspected gambling houses in January 1899 recorded a raid on a poolroom at 19 Stanton Street. The officers found more than gambling: the report noted that the place was also an opium joint. Daytonian in Manhattan points out that tenement residents like those here lived alongside such operations.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1904

    June 21

    Tenant John Segallo, linked by police to the barrel murder, is shot dead

    John Segallo, a 30-year-old resident who said he was a tailor, was described by police as connected with the Mafia and was being looked at in connection with the 1903 barrel murder of Benedetto Madonia. The New York Times reported on June 21, 1904 that he had been shot twice in the abdomen; he died at Hudson Street Hospital that evening. A detective suspected a quarrel over the loot from a newly arrived immigrant's pocketbook.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1912

    January 20

    Resident Antonio Fedele, a Lupo gang counterfeiter, is found dead in South Orange

    Antonio Fedele, 28, lived here with his widowed mother and eight sisters, who believed he was a hardworking contractor. The New York Herald called him an old member of the Lupo counterfeiting gang, and he had served time for counterfeiting and burglary. His body, stabbed and shot three times in the head, turned up in a clump of trees in South Orange Township, New Jersey.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  6. 1995

    April

    The 205 Club opens on the ground floor as a social club for hipsters

    New York Magazine described the 205 Club in its April 17, 1995 issue as a stylish, glass-fronted club. Later ground-floor tenants included Cocktail Bodega, a juice bar serving whiskey, in 2012, and Leave Rochelle Out of It by November 2013, before a new 205 Club took over.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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