23 Stuyvesant Street

East Village | built 1861

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.

1861
James Renwick Jr. is credited with a narrow rowhouse on the Stuyvesant triangle
Architectural historians generally credit James Renwick Jr. with the Anglo-Italianate rowhouses that Matthias Banta developed on a triangular parcel he bought in 1858 from Hamilton Fish, who had inherited it from his mother, Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish. No. 23 was among the narrowest, with a rough-cut brownstone base under four floors of red brick trimmed in brownstone.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1961
Richard Flusser turns the rooming house into an opera company headquarters
In July 1960 Richard S. Flusser and his wife bought the five-story rooming house and planned "extensive alterations," which were finished in 1961. Their apartment then became the headquarters of Flusser's After Dinner Opera Company, which he had founded in 1949.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1969
The house becomes part of the St. Mark's Historic District
New York City designated the St. Mark's Historic District in 1969, and No. 23 Stuyvesant Street lies within it. The house has a rusticated stone ground floor, a taller parlor floor with a wrought-iron balcony, and red-brick upper floors with stone window surrounds.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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