701 East 9th Street | Block : 379 | Lot #1-7, 59, 61, 63

Building Date : Unknown
Original Use : Community Garden

Original Owner : Unknown
Original Architect : Unknown

Description & Building Alterations

Currently used as the 9th Street Community Garden, tax lots 1-7, 59 and 61 originally housed nine tenement buildings that were built between the mid-1800s and the early 1900s. These buildings combined residential space above stores on the ground floor. Little is known about the original use of lot 63. Tax photos indicate that lots 1-5, 61, and 63 were vacant by the 1980s, whereas two five-story buildings occupied lots 6 and 7 and a six-story building stood on lot 59 Photos from the time also show that lot 59

Beginning on the northeast corner of East 9th Street and Avenue C, lots 1-7 were Pre-Law tenements likely built in the mid-19th century and were all 5-stories tall.

Lots 59 and 61, just east of the East 9th Street and Avenue C intersection, were twin buildings designed by Sass & Smallheiser for Dr. Henry Schlesinger in 1903. Each 6-story New-Law tenement housed 24 families over their first-floor shops.

The community garden began in the late 1970s on the corner lot, tax lot 1, and today is one of the city’s largest community garden spaces.

Block : 379 / Lot : 1-7, 59, 61, 63 / Building Date : Unknown / Original Owner : Unknown / Original Use : Community Garden / Original Architect : Unknown

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