233 East 3rd Street
East Village | built 1910
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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.
- 1898
Samuel Ruth builds a six-story tenement with three ground-floor stores
Architects Horenburger & Straub design the six-story Old Law tenement for owner Samuel J. Ruth. The ground floor holds three stores and three apartments, and six families live on each upper floor. Ornamental window moldings and belt courses decorate the white brick facade, which later loses its decorative cornice.
- 1940
A 1940 certificate of occupancy shows the ground-floor stores are gone
A certificate of occupancy issued in 1940 shows that the ground-floor stores have been replaced by additional apartments. The building's total number of units is listed as 29, matching its capacity today.
Further reading
- 233 East 3rd Street; 233-235 East 3rd StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 237 East 3rd StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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