69 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1852

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.

1885
A pre-1852 rowhouse at 69 East 7th Street is altered in 1885 as a three-family house
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Historic maps show a building on this lot by 1852, apparently a single-family rowhouse. An alteration application filed in 1885 shows it had by then been converted to a multiple dwelling for three families. The 1885 work also enlarged the window openings and added a galvanized brick cornice, which was gone by the time of the 1940s tax photograph.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Tenement-law alterations bring bathrooms to 69 East 7th Street
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Later work on the building mostly aimed to bring it in line with tenement house regulations. Window openings were cut in the rear in 1905, and in 1907 interior cross partitions were built and bathrooms installed. The 1905 and 1907 filings still describe it as four stories over a basement, so the basement entry seen today was created after that.
“The 1907 alterations also brought bathrooms to the building.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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