246 East 5th Street

East Village | built 1883

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1883
A former carriage house at 246 East 5th Street becomes a house and store
Jacob Finck owns a two-story building at 246 East 5th Street, possibly a carriage house or small stable, when he dies in 1881. His widow and son Andrew most likely convert it into a house and store around 1883. The remodeling mixes Italianate window cornices with a neo-Grec pressed metal cornice and adds a storefront with paneled cast iron pilasters.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2003
September
Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar opens in the storefront
Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar opens at 246 East 5th Street in September 2003, in a storefront reintroduced when the building was renovated before 2000. New York Times food critic Florence Fabricant describes a little marble bar lit by chandeliers. The building had been a stuccoed single-family house since the 1970s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2025
May 9
Ingrid Lundgren and Marissa Dembkoski open the Slip House gallery
Ingrid Lundgren and Marissa Dembkoski open Slip House, an art gallery, in the former oyster bar space at 246 East 5th Street. The ground-floor facade is covered in mosaics and pennies by artist Jim Powers, and an ironwork archway by Linus Coraggio frames the entrance area.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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