420 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.

1889
No. 420 shows the row's round-headed double doors with carved fan ornament
The houses of the 1889 row were built with double-leaf, round-headed paneled wood front doors, each with a carved fan-shaped cluster of foliage above the lowest panels. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1994 report points to No. 420 as its example of this door. The stoops are stone with heavy cast-iron newels, balusters and handrails, and wrought-iron grilles with scrolled edges protect the basement door and windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1890
No. 420 has tenants by the time of the 1890 police census
Within a year of completion, the first group of houses in O'Gorman and Stursberg's East 140th Street row was about two-thirds rented. The New York Police census of 1890 recorded residents at No. 420 and at Nos. 406 to 410, 414, 424 to 434, 440, 446 and 448. Of the row's second group, farther east, only Nos. 468 and 470 had occupants that year.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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