318 East 6th Street

East Village | built 1862

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.

1865
William Gessner leases the new Whitney-heirs tenement at 318 East 6th Street in 1865
Built around 1862 for the heirs of Stephen Whitney, who had bought a good deal of the block in 1825, this five-story building was leased in 1865 to William Gessner. It has cast-iron Corinthian columns at the entrance and at each edge of the facade, a brick frieze with a dentil course, and its original iron cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
A 1909 alteration inserts a small window in the middle of each story of 318 East 6th Street
Alteration filing 171 of 1909 added a single small window at the center of every floor of this five-story tenement, and the lintels of the older windows were shaved off at some point. The building dates from about 1862. Its ground-floor storefronts have since been infilled.
“…single small window added in center of building on each story (ALT 171-1909)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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