229 East 10th 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.

1889
Charles and Augustus Ruff commission a Romanesque Revival tenement from Schneider & Herter
Charles and Augustus Ruff demolish the private house on the site and hire Schneider & Herter to design a 22-foot-wide, five-story tenement, with projected construction costs of $22,000. The Romanesque Revival facade adds Queen Anne touches and carved portraits, including a Native American figure supporting a fifth-floor pier. Two carved youthful atlantes hold up the central piers of the top floor.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1908
August 21
Two tenants are arrested at the end of a multi-city safecracking spree
Tenants Richard Vaughn and George 'Humpty' Williams are arrested in the act of robbing a dentist's office downtown, ending a spree that eight detectives had tracked through several cities. The Sun reports that the pair had made off with about $10,000 in earlier hauls. Williams, who had spent seventeen years in jail, is called one of the most expert safecrackers living.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1918
October
Tenant Irving Siota earns the Distinguished Service Cross in France
Resident Irving Siota enlists in the medical detachment of the 308th Infantry. From October 2 to 7, 1918, his detachment is cut off and surrounded in the Argonne forest during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Without food, he keeps giving first aid to the wounded under shell and machine-gun fire, and receives the Distinguished Service Cross two years later.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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