78 East 2nd Street

East Village | built 1837

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.

1837
Ernest Keyser builds a pair of Federal rowhouses, including 78 East 2nd Street
Around 1837, the owner Ernest Keyser puts up two mirror-image houses at 78 and 80 Second Street, each two and a half stories tall and faced in red Flemish bond brick with brownstone trim. The houses are shallow and have no rear yards because the New York Marble Cemetery, opened in 1831, backs onto the lots. Their windows have paneled lintels with end blocks carved as leaf-backed flowers.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1869
The Keyser family raises the attic and doubles the house with an addition
Around 1869, the Keyser family raises the attic of 78 East 2nd Street to a full floor and builds a two-bay addition on the vacant lot beside it. The architect copies the parlor-level lintels exactly and gives the upper windows paneled lintels in the older Federal style. The addition ends up four floors tall.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1913
The Darchel Noam Talmud Torah is organized at 78 East 2nd Street
The Darchel Noam Talmud Torah is organized in the house in 1913. A 1918 directory describes the yeshiva as a communal school with three teachers and 28 girls enrolled. It meets afternoons on weekdays and mornings on Sundays, and moves next door in 1925.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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