338 East 6th Street

East Village | built 1865

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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. 1864

    Katharina Hartman takes the first lease on a new tenement at 338 East 6th Street, plus three neighboring lots

    The tenement at 338 East 6th Street was built around 1864-65 on land from Stephen Whitney's holdings, with his heirs as the original owners. Katharina Hartman took the first lease in 1864. She also took leases on the lots numbered 26, 27 and 28.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1967

    Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes rent a fifth-floor apartment, with Rita Mae Brown next door

    From about 1967 to 1971, the activists Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes lived in a fifth-floor apartment at 338 East 6th Street, and Rita Mae Brown, later an author, rented the adjacent one for a couple of years. Jane Cohen lived on the floor below, and Liz Wallace later moved into Brown's old apartment. Broidy and Rhodes held editorial meetings there for the first issues of the Gay Liberation Front newsletter Come Out, and the building became a popular gathering place for lesbian organizers.

    Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

  3. 1970

    Lesbian activists plan the 1970 Lavender Menace protest at 338 East 6th Street and dye the shirts in a bathtub

    Ellen Broidy, Linda Rhodes and Rita Mae Brown all took part in the Lavender Menace protest of 1970 at the Second Congress to Unite Women. Women made signs and flyers and planned how the protest would unfold in Broidy and Rhodes's apartment at 338 East 6th Street. A bathtub in Brown's former apartment, which Broidy and Rhodes could still use, was where the lavender T-shirts were dyed.

    Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

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