57 2nd Avenue
also 59 2nd Avenue | East Village | built 1903
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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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- 1903
Pelham's nine-story apartment house rises well above its walk-up neighbors on Second Avenue
The Landmarks Preservation Commission singles out 57 Second Avenue, designed by George F. Pelham and finished in 1903, as a conspicuous building on the avenue. At nine stories it was significantly taller than the walk-up tenements around it. Several true apartment buildings followed in the neighborhood in the 1910s and 1920s, many of them developed by Saul Birns.
- 1905
Rose Schneiderman moves in with her family and joins a 13-week capmakers' strike
In 1905 the labor organizer Rose Schneiderman moved into the newly built apartment house with her mother and three younger siblings, and she stayed until about 1910. She was secretary of the Jewish Socialist United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers' Union and a delegate to the New York Central Labor Union. That year she also took part in a 13-week capmakers' strike, called when an employer tried to introduce an open shop.
- 1907
While living here, Rose Schneiderman becomes the Women's Trade Union League's full-time East Side organizer
From 1907 on, Rose Schneiderman threw herself into the work of the New York Women's Trade Union League. As its vice president she received a stipend that let her work full time as the League's East Side organizer. Between 1909 and 1914 she helped organize the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, including the 1909 Shirtwaist Strike, and she was the League's president from 1917 to 1949.
Further reading
- 57-59 Second AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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