303 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.

1855
William Flannelly builds a five-story tenement with a backhouse at 303 East 10th Street
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Irish immigrant William Flannelly built the five-story tenement at 303 East 10th Street around 1855 and lived in it. A backhouse stood in the rear yard, which maps of 1857-62 and 1868 show was reached through a passage in the main building. Such pre-law tenements likely held ten to twenty families, in apartments of two to three rooms.
“Within the historic district, both 303 and 323 East 10th Street were built with backhouses.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1880
Twelve Irish households and one German family crowd 303 East 10th Street
Owner William Flannelly was an Irish immigrant who built, owned and lived in 303 East 10th Street, and he appears to have rented mostly to fellow Irish. The 1870 census lists more than 60 people here, with names like McCullough, McGuire, Morgan and Ryan. By 1880 there were 80 inhabitants in twelve Irish households and one German one, on a block that was otherwise overwhelmingly German.
“…the 1880 census lists twelve Irish households in the building and a single family from Germany.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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