60 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1840

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.

1840
A three-story row house goes up at 60 East 7th Street for John C. Perrin
Around 1839-40 John C. Perrin built a three-story row house on this lot. The house was altered into a tenement in the decades that followed, and the building on the lot today grew out of it.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1879
Architect William Jose converts 60 East 7th Street to a tenement and moves in
In 1879 the architect William Jose raised the old row house to four stories and made it a tenement. The 1880 census and the city directories show him living in the building with his wife and son afterward. The details from his alteration were later stripped away.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1929
Cyrus P. Meli removes the stoop at 60 East 7th Street and moves the entrance to the basement in 1929
Architect Cyrus P. Meli redesigned the entrance in 1929. The original stoop came off and the main door moved to the basement level, reached by stairs. The Gothic Revival pointed-arch doorway that survives probably dates to this alteration.
“…original stoop removed in 1929 and main entrance through basement with stairs added (ALT 1157-1929)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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