308 Mott Street

NoHo | built 1902

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1902
Schneider & Herter design a seven-story apartment house at 308 Mott Street under the 1901 tenement law
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Schneider & Herter designed this neo-Classical apartment house at 308-312 Mott Street, built in 1901-02 for Jonas Weil, Bernard Mayer and Mathilda Kassowitz, along with a matching building next door. Seven stories tall, the pair were among the first tenements built under the Tenement House Act of 1901, which set minimum courtyard sizes and height limits. Both replaced several early-nineteenth-century row houses.
“…among the first tenements to be built in compliance with the Tenement House Act of 1901…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
By 1905 every household at 308 Mott Street is Italian, led by bootblack Vincenzo Morano
Within a few years of opening, the building was entirely Italian, but turnover was high: 41 of its 46 families in 1905 were gone by 1915. Vincenzo Morano's household stayed longest, from at least 1905 until the early 1930s. Morano was a bootblack, born in Italy in 1860, who had immigrated in 1884. The building became cooperative apartments in 1987.
“The longest-standing family, prior to the Depression years, was that of Vincenzo Morano, who lived at No. 308-312 from at least 1905 into the early 1930s.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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