72 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1897

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.

1897
George F. Pelham designs 72 East 7th Street with its twin at No. 74 for Joseph Buttenwieser
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In 1897 George F. Pelham designed a six-story tenement at 72 East 7th Street for owner Joseph L. Buttenwieser, filed on one building application together with No. 74 and built around the same time as No. 70 next door. The landmark report observes that numerous Pelham buildings in the district seem to repeat one facade or a near copy of it, including 59, 63, 70, 72, 74 and 73-75 on East 7th Street and tenements on East 4th, East 5th and East 6th Streets.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1950
A farm from New Jersey keeps an egg shop here, open only on Thursdays
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From the 1950s until the mid-1980s, one of the ground-floor storefronts at 72 East 7th Street held an egg store run by Shady Hollow Farm of New Jersey. The shop opened only on Thursdays. Its storefront was still in use as an egg store when the building appeared on screen in the 1980s film Moscow on the Hudson.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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