30 East 3rd Street

East Village | built 1836

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

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1836
Hardware merchants Hubbard and Casey build five speculative row houses on East 3rd
Hardware merchants Hubbard & Casey begin construction in 1835 on five matching speculative houses at 30 through 38 East 3rd Street, completed a year later. The three-story Greek Revival houses sit over English basements and have Flemish-bond brick, iron fences and brownstone trim. They are aimed at merchant-class families, and No. 30 is later altered along with most of its neighbors.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1884
November
Sergeant Charles Grainger is moved out of the Tombs Police Court after resisting political favors
Charles M. Grainger, a Crimean War and Civil War veteran who was held at Libby Prison after being wounded at Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, lives in the house while serving with the NYPD. Assigned to the Tombs Police Court in November 1884, he does not go along with the politicians who work its halls and is transferred to the 8th Precinct in early 1885, to the anger of the court's police justices. He retires about four years later as a 25-year veteran and moves to Coney Island.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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