231 East 9th Street
East Village | built 1900
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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.
- 1891
Stuyvesant heirs sell the old stable to Morris Rosendorff
The two-story stable stands on land that was once part of the Peter Stuyvesant farms, which John Reade Stuyvesant had inherited. His heirs sell the building to Morris Rosendorff for $11,000, and he continues to lease it to Frederick Palmer. Rosendorff loses it to foreclosure in June 1894.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1900
Frederick Palmer's mattress-weaving firm becomes the Palmer Galvanic Bed Co.
Palmer, who has leased the building since at least 1881 for his woven-wire mattress business, buys it in 1897. Around the turn of the century he renames the firm the Palmer Galvanic Bed Co., which makes wire bed springs. He sells the building in 1927, at age 89, to the Standard Metal Ceiling Company.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1953
Sculptor Charles Salerno lives in the second-floor apartment above the old stable
Charles Salerno, born in 1916 and known for abstract figurative sculptures worked mostly in marble, occupies the apartment in the former stable building. He taught art at Washington Irving High School and the National Academy of Design.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The John R. Stuyvesant Stable - 231 East 9th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- 231 East 9th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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