216 East 5th Street

East Village | built 1866

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About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1865

    Gerard Stuyvesant, a Stuyvesant descendant, commissions three tenements at 214 to 218 East 5th Street

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    Around 1864-66 Gerard Stuyvesant, a descendant of the old Stuyvesant family, had a group of three tenements put up at 214, 216 and 218 East 5th Street. The row was one of several smaller groups and single tenements that filled in the East Village during the 1860s and 1870s, particularly on East 5th Street.

    “Gerard Stuyvesant, descendant of the Stuyvesant family, commissioned a group of three at 214 to 218 East 5th Street around 1864-66…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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