313 East 9th Street
East Village | built 1900
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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.
- 1866
A five-story tenement replaces a stable on East 9th Street
Owner Henry Gucker has a five-story brick tenement built at 313 East 9th Street in 1864-66, replacing a stable that stood on the lot. The building is altered in 1889. Its facade today has a bracketed cornice with a frieze and molded lintels over segmental-arched windows.
- 1929
Astor Piazzolla gets a bandoneon while living on East 9th Street
Astor Piazzolla, born in Argentina in 1921, moves with his parents to a tenement at 313 East 9th Street. He takes up the bandoneon at age eight, reportedly after his father buys one for $19 at a New York pawn shop. Piazzolla returns to Argentina in 1937 and later popularizes nuevo tango, which brings jazz and classical sounds into traditional tango.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- 313 East 9th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- The tango composer from East Ninth StreetEphemeral New York
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