702 East 5th Street

also 68 Avenue C | East Village | built 1900

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.

1904
Meyer Frank builds a six-story tenement at Avenue C and East 5th Street
Developer Meyer Frank, of 17-19 Attorney Street, builds a six-story tenement at the corner of Avenue C and East 5th Street for $30,000. Architect George Frederick Pelham designs it to house ten families. Its cornice has since been removed and the ground floor altered, but terracotta window frames, elaborate fire escapes and a limestone doorway with a pediment on East 5th Street survive.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1950
Johnny Miller's Luncheonette occupies a storefront at 68 Avenue C in 1950
In 1950 one of the ground-floor storefronts of the 1904 tenement at 68 Avenue C houses Johnny Miller's Luncheonette. The six-story building was designed by George Frederick Pelham for ten families, with shops at street level.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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