418 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1891

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

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1891
Keister crowns No. 418 with a scrolled gable above a slate mansard
A stone stoop leads to No. 418's original paneled wooden door with a large glass light, beneath a segmental stained-glass transom. A projecting bay with two windows marks the middle of the third story, and above a modest galvanized-iron cornice rises a scrolled gable pierced by a blind arch. Stepped party walls divide its slate-shingled mansard from the roofs on either side.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1892
Dutch-born salesman Louis Van Veen buys No. 418, the first house Bertine sells in the row
In 1892 the family of Louis Van Veen, a salesman from the Netherlands, became the first to buy a house from Edward Bertine in his new row. They were still at No. 418 in 1900, when the census listed Van Veen, his Dutch wife, a son born in the Netherlands, plus two more sons and a daughter who were New York natives.
“In 1892, the Van Veens had been the first to purchase a house in this row from Bertine…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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