238 East 6th Street

also 101 2nd Avenue | East Village | built 1880

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.

1876
September
Frederick Pflueger buys the corner lot and hires Julius Boekell to design it
Developer Frederick Pflueger buys a one-story store building at the corner of Second Avenue and East 6th Street and hires architect Julius Boekell to replace it with two flat-and-store buildings. The slightly smaller one, at 238 East 6th Street, is completed in 1877 in the neo-Grec style. Stone bands connect its windows, and the second-floor lintels are topped with classical triangular pediments.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1917
The Russian-language newspaper Russky Golos is founded and published from the rear shop
A print shop described as Russian and Slavic already occupies one of the storefronts. In 1917 the Russian-language newspaper Russky Golos, or The Russian Voice, is founded and published from the rear of the shop. An editorial of November 10, 1917 warns that the Bolsheviks are as dangerous as the right-wing Black Hundred. The paper moves to 130 East 6th Street by the mid-1940s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1977
Leonard Gruen crafts custom iron window guards from a ground-floor shop
Leonard Gruen works out of a small storefront at 238 East 6th Street, as the New York Times describes it. With his wife's help, he fashions window guards from chain links and iron rods, each made to fit a customer's windows. The bookstore Howeria occupies the other store at the time.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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