333 East 6th Street

East Village | built 1882

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1882
Albert Wagner designs a neo-Grec tenement for Anna Breller with two families to a floor
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Anna Breller was the original owner of 333 East 6th Street, a five-story brick building with a brownstone base designed by Albert Wagner in 1882. It was planned for two families on each floor plus a janitor's apartment in the basement. In the middle of the 20th century, extra apartments were added on the first, fourth and fifth floors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
November
Tenants of a heatless building buy their own oil and deduct the cost from rent
In 1980 nine of the ten tenants at 333 East 6th Street acted together under a state law passed the year before, which let tenants in buildings without heat buy fuel themselves and subtract the cost from their rent. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes theirs as the first reported use of the law. The New York Times covered it on November 27, 1980.
“In 1980, by action of nine of the 10 tenants of the building, 333 East 6th Street became the first reported application of a law the State Legislature passed in 1979…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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