Mercy House

320 East 3rd Street | East Village | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1855

    A row of Greek Revival-Italianate houses is built on East 3rd Street

    Around 1855 a row of three-story brick houses with basements is built on the south side of East 3rd Street between Avenues C and D, mixing Greek Revival and Italianate styles. By the late 1850s No. 320 is home to E. L. Rosemon, who heads the carpentry firm E. L. Rosemon & Son. He also chairs the Journeymen Carpenters' Cooperative Association, a sort of early labor union.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1859

    April 15

    Carpenter E. L. Rosemon leads a meeting that demands higher wages

    On April 15, 1859, E. L. Rosemon, who lives at 320 East 3rd Street, heads a meeting of the Journeymen Carpenters' Cooperative Association that resolves to demand $1.88 a day. That is just under $75 in 2025 dollars. Rosemon also chairs the Early Closing Association, which pushes for a shorter workday for dry goods clerks.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1968

    Mobilization for Youth opens legal aid offices in the house

    In 1968 the house is converted into offices for Mobilization for Youth, a legal group that represents clients who cannot pay. It runs a "legal van on wheels" and helps tenants with relocation problems and rent laws. The change follows a 1967 rent strike, in which the house's tenants withheld rent and said the landlord failed to keep the premises safe.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1990

    The Orthodox Christian Brotherhood of Our Lady of Mercy moves in

    The house is sold in foreclosure in 1990 and becomes home to the nonprofit Orthodox Christian Brotherhood of Our Lady of Mercy. The charitable group is best known as Mercy House and still operates here.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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