39 East 7th Street
East Village | built 1833
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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.
- 1835
Justice Elijah Paine of the Superior Court is listed as living at 39 East 7th Street
City tax records list Justice Elijah Paine of the Superior Court of New York City at this address from 1835. The house was one of four built on the block around 1832-33, each valued at $6,000 when finished in 1833. Thomas E. Davis and Louis Wilcox are listed as the original owners of No. 39.
“Justice Elijah Paine of the Superior Court of New York City ... is listed on tax records as living at 39 East 7th Street beginning in 1835.”
- 1904
A rear extension filing shows the old row house now holds five families
No. 39 began as a three-and-a-half story single-family row house and was still recorded as a private dwelling in a Department of Buildings record from 1873. By 1904, when an application was filed for a rear extension, it had grown to four stories and was occupied by five families. The Landmarks Preservation Commission reads this as the house's shift into a tenement.
Further reading
- 39 East 7th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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