319 East 10th Street

East Village | built 1848

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.

1850
A matching Greek Revival house sells at auction opposite the park
One of two mirror-image Greek Revival houses begun in 1847, No. 319 East 10th Street is sold at auction on March 18, 1850, to real estate agent John Attridge. The house is four stories tall and 25 feet wide. It was meant for well-off families who would overlook Tompkins Square, which opens in 1850.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1854
Levi Shulman buys the house and shares it with his brother
After John Attridge's furnishings are auctioned in April 1854, Levi Shulman buys the house and lives there with his brother Louis. The two are partners in the boot and shoe firm of Louis Shulman & Co. In later years the family rents rooms to German-born bachelors, among them a painter, a cigar maker and a drygoods merchant. Levi's son Alexander enrolls at the city's college by 1878 and is practicing medicine from the house by 1890.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1883
Levi Shulman and Andrew Carey modernize their matching houses
In 1883 Levi Shulman and his neighbor Andrew Carey at No. 317 apparently hire the same architect to update their formerly mirror-image houses. The Shulman house gets cast-metal Queen Anne lintels and sills, while its cornice stays fairly plain next to the showy pediment on the Carey house. Only the paired entablatures over the two entrances match.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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