228 East 6th Street

East Village | built 1890

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

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1854
July 16
Organist Elizabeth Jennings, bound for a church on this site, is forced off a streetcar
An earlier building on this site, home to the First Methodist Congregational Colored Church (23-25 East 6th Street, today's 228), was the destination of Elizabeth Jennings on July 16, 1854. She boarded a Third Avenue Railway streetcar to play the organ there, but a conductor and a policeman forced her off at Chatham and Pearl Streets. She sued the company, was represented by the young lawyer Chester A. Arthur, and won $225 in damages.
Source: Village Preservation
1890
Jobst Hoffmann replaces the Colored Methodist church at 228 East 6th Street with a tenement
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Where the First Methodist Congregational Colored Church once stood, the architect and owner Jobst Hoffmann built a five-story tenement in 1890. It was one of a matching pair with his building next door at 226, and the two together housed 20 families. They were later combined into a single building.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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