629 East 5th Street

East Village | built 1920

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.

1907
Bernstein & Bernstein design a six-story tenement for Samuel Golding
Architects Bernstein & Bernstein designed this six-story tenement in 1907 for owner Samuel Golding, and it once had a store on the ground floor. The upper stories are buff brick, with classically inspired stonework and scrolled keystones around the windows. The top-floor windows have segmental arches, and the building most likely once had a cornice.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1942
A service flag marks the building through the Second World War
After the United States entered the Second World War, a service flag was hung from this building across East 5th Street in 1942. It stayed there until the war ended.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1961
Samuel Delany and Marilyn Hacker move into apartment 2B
After marrying in 1961, writer Samuel Delany and poet Marilyn Hacker moved into apartment 2B. Their landlord, Noah Greenberg, put the interracial couples who came to him looking for an apartment in this building, at a time when interracial marriage was still illegal in many states. Delany's first published novel, The Jewels of Aptor, came out in 1962 while he lived here. About four years later the couple moved to East 6th Street.
Source: Village Preservation

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