416 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.

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1900
Clerks, tailors, a pilot and a fire chief rent houses in O'Gorman's rows
Census records from around 1900 show that the rented single-family houses in the East 139th and 140th Street rows, the row of No. 416 among them, typically held German or Irish families of the first or second generation, often with relatives and one servant. Heads of household worked as clerks, salesmen, tailors, iron workers, a picture framer, a horse dealer, a glue broker and a pilot; one was a fire chief, another a newspaper editor, and one a physician.
“In addition, there was one fire chief, one newspaper editor, and a physician.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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