253 East 10th Street

East Village | built 1900

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.

1888
Ernest Von Au commissions Jobst Hoffman's flat building
Ernest Von Au, who had bought the existing three-story house in 1886, hires architect Jobst Hoffman to replace it. Hoffman files plans in May 1888 for a five-story Renaissance Revival building of brick, brownstone, and terra cotta costing $18,000. Construction finishes within seven months, and Von Au sells the completed building to Conrad Schmidt that December for $38,500.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1974
Samuel W. Manuel runs for state comptroller from the building
Resident Samuel W. Manuel runs for New York State Comptroller on the Socialist Workers Party ticket, continuing a pattern of left-wing politics at 253 East 10th Street. Three decades earlier, in 1940, other tenants, Frank Maskiewicz and John Morov, had been registered Communist Party voters at the same address.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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