270 East 2nd Street

East Village | built 2025

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.

1867
The city builds Primary School No. 31 on East 2nd Street
A city primary school, No. 31, was built on this lot in 1867. In 1899 it became Public School No. 131, and it kept that name until at least 1924. The Children's Aid Society's 1895 report places its German Industrial School at 272 Second Street, then the school's address, though the records do not settle whether that is the same building as today's.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1947
The former school becomes emergency housing for veterans
The building served as a city coal depot in 1944. In 1947 the New York Times reported that it had been converted into 18 units of emergency housing for veterans. A synagogue owned it by 1955, a day care operated there in 1970, and in 1973 it held the offices and school of the Negro Action Group.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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