The Livingstone

206 East 9th Street | East Village | built 1900

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.

1886
George B. Post designs the Livingstone apartment building
Architect George B. Post designs 206-208 East 9th Street, a five-story Renaissance Revival apartment building known as the Livingstone, for owner James Thomson. Molded terra-cotta bands and arched window openings decorate the red-brick facade. Ten seven-room apartments, two per floor, rent for the equivalent of $1,160 to $1,290 a month in today's money.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1892
October
The Rembrandt Art School operates out of the Livingstone
In an October 1892 advertisement, Prof. and Mrs. Champney list the Rembrandt Art School at 206-208 East 9th Street, where some residents both live and work. Another tenant, John F. Victory, publishes The Postal Record from his apartment and the next year is secretary of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1915
John F. Victory Jr., son of a Livingstone resident, becomes NACA's first employee
John F. Victory Jr., born in 1893 to the publisher of The Postal Record, who lived at 206-208 East 9th Street, becomes the first employee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics when it is organized in 1915. He later serves as the agency's secretary and, after NASA is organized in 1958, as a special assistant to its administrator.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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