630 East 9th Street

East Village | built 1910

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1889
Kurtzer & Rohl design a five-story tenement at 630 East 9th Street
Architects Kurtzer & Rohl design a five-story tenement for owners Charles and August Ruff, with four apartments on each floor. Three neighboring lots on the block once held identical buildings. The tenement has since lost its cornice and been refaced, while 626 East 9th Street gives a closer idea of how the original looked.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1985
Artists paint the La Lucha Continua murals on the building's east wall
Two of the few surviving murals from the 1980s La Lucha Continua ("the struggle continues") project are on this building's east wall, facing La Plaza Cultural community garden. Rikki Asher's "For the Women of South Africa, Central America and the Lower East Side" is nearer the south end, and "Stand Up" by Amy Berniker, Alison Lew and Ken Bloomer is nearer the street. Both are damaged, yet they have outlasted many others in the series that building owners painted over.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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