414 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1889

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.

1885
No. 414 copies a neo-Grec design O'Gorman used for an 1885 row nearby
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William O'Gorman appears to have modeled No. 414 and its row on eight neo-Grec houses that he and Hermann Stursberg put up in 1885 along East 139th Street's south side, just outside the historic district; one of those houses survives and matches this row exactly. Flat neo-Grec fronts with even cornices were cheaper to build but already old-fashioned, since Manhattan builders had moved to the irregular Queen Anne style by 1880.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1890
No. 414 is listed with residents in the 1890 police census
No. 414 was among the houses in O'Gorman and Stursberg's East 140th Street row listed with residents in the 1890 New York Police census, the year after the western part of the row was finished in January 1889. By then about two-thirds of that first group of rental houses had tenants.
“…residents were listed at Nos. 406 to 410, 414, 420, 424 to 434…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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