62 East 3rd Street

East Village | built 1839

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.

1839
Builder John Hanrahan completes a Greek Revival house for William H. Mott
John Hanrahan begins this brick house in 1838 as one of a pair and finishes it the following year. It has three stories above a brownstone-clad basement, cast-iron stoop railings, and an entrance framed by stone pilasters. The original owner, William H. Mott, leases it out; the address was then 56 Third Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1907
May 17
Police raid a house where a fence reportedly trained boys as thieves
After a thief arrested in May 1907 names Theodore Grant as a fence who also ran a school for boy thieves, detectives stake out 62 East 3rd Street. They catch Grant as he tries to slip into the basement through the chimney grate, and find what the New York Times calls a school of instruction in crime. Newspapers put the recovered loot, including lace and jewelry stolen from express companies, at $50,000.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1930
June
Nathan Yochnowitz converts the house into four apartments
Nathan Yochnowitz buys 62 East 3rd Street in June 1930 and divides it into four apartments. That arrangement is still in place today.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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