New York Zendo Shobo-Ji

223 East 67th Street | Lenox Hill | built 1910

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.

1887
The Sisters of Charity open St. John's Day Nursery for working mothers
The Sisters of Charity opened St. John's Day Nursery at 223 East 67th Street in 1887 so poor mothers could leave their children while they worked. The brick building above a stable for the Foundling Hospital was hard to tell apart from the carriage houses on the block. It took children from eighteen months to five years old between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., and philanthropist John D. Crimmins gave the entire third floor of his neighboring carriage house for its use.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1922
October
Robert Goelet buys the former nursery and turns it into a private garage
John D. Crimmins died in 1917 and his neighboring carriage house was sold in 1919. In October 1922 the Sisters sold the nursery building to the wealthy Robert Goelet, who converted it into his private garage. It was still used as a garage when the Goelet estate sold it in 1967.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1968
September 15
Zen teachers Soen Nakagawa and Eido Shimano found New York Zendo Shobo-Ji
Soen Nakagawa Roshi and Eido Tai Shimano Roshi founded the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji on September 15, 1968, in the building that had been a carriage house and then a garage. It is a Rinzai Zen practice center run by the Zen Studies Society. The temple offers daily zazen and chanting services.
Source: Wikipedia

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