Former Proskurover Zion synagogue
431 East 6th Street | East Village | built 1852
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1870
The four-story front house and two-story rear building at No. 431 are joined into a two-family home
The building at 431 East 6th Street began as a four-story house with a two-story building behind it. An 1870 alteration joined them to make a house for two families. By 1890 the first story held a store, and by 1895 the second story held a lodge room. In 1915 the property combined a meeting room with one family's dwelling.
- 1927
The Proskurover Zion Congregation turns No. 431 into a synagogue with a benevolent society in the basement
In 1927 the Proskurover Zion Congregation and the Kranken Untershtitsung Verein, a sick benevolent society, converted the building into a synagogue. The society's members gathered for meetings and social occasions in the basement and worshipped in the main sanctuary. They also paid for a sexton, who lived in an upstairs apartment. A panel over the door still carries the synagogue's engraved name.
- 1982
Painters, photographers and poets make their homes in the former synagogue at No. 431
The Proskurover Zion Congregation had left by 1978, and the building was soon converted into artists' studios and homes. From 1982 on, residents included the painter Jack Sal, the photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the curator Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, the artist William Wegman and the poet Paola Igliori. In 2021 the ground-floor gallery and main duplex apartment were put up for sale.
Further reading
- 431 East 6th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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