74 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1897

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1984

    Storefronts at 74 East 7th Street appear in a book on the Lower East Side and in a 1980s film

    The landmark report notes that the ground-floor shops at 74 East 7th Street were featured in Edmund V. Gillon Jr.'s book The Lower East Side, with the 1960s given as the period. They appeared again in the 1980s movie Moscow on the Hudson. When the district was designated, the eastern storefront had held a shoe repair shop for nearly four decades.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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