543 East 6th Street
also 543A East 6th Street | East Village | built 1930
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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.
- 1880
A blacksmith shop gives way to a five-story tenement
Tax records from the 1850s and 1860s show a blacksmith shop on this lot owned by B. Hannigan. By 1879 the Hannigan estate owned it and a shop still stood there, but the next year records list a five-story building under the same ownership. The narrow old-law tenement's most notable surviving feature is its cornice, which has scroll modillions and a frieze with diamond details.
Further reading
- 543 East 6th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 543 East 6th Street; 543 1/2 East 6th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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