46 East 3rd Street

East Village | built 1836

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

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1836
Builder Ephraim Scudder puts up a row house for Samuel B. Romaine
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Number 46 East 3rd Street was built about 1835-36 by Ephraim Scudder for Samuel B. Romaine as a three-story Greek Revival house with a peaked roof. The roof was removed in 1901, and the facade was later stuccoed in an Arts and Crafts manner. In 1934 the stoop came off and the entrance moved to the basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1981
Quentin Crisp moves into a small apartment at 46 East 3rd Street
After a one-man show took Quentin Crisp to New York and a stay at the Hotel Chelsea, Crisp left the London bed-sit on Beaufort Street occupied since 1940 and emigrated in 1981. A small apartment at 46 East 3rd Street became the new home. Crisp kept the telephone number in the directory and treated talking to any caller as a duty.
“Crisp decided to move to New York permanently and, in 1981, found a small apartment at 46 East 3rd Street in Manhattan's East Village.”
Source: Wikipedia
1982
Crisp, living in a former rooming house here, stages An Evening With Quentin Crisp
By Crisp's arrival in 1981 the house had been converted to single-room occupancy rentals. In 1982, while living here, Crisp produced the stage show An Evening With Quentin Crisp at the Players Theater, which won a Drama Desk Award. Crisp's New York diaries, published as Resident Alien, were also written during the years at this address.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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