422 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1891

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1891

    Former milk dealer Edward Bertine buys up East 136th Street land and builds 422

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    City directories list Edward D. Bertine as selling milk in Manhattan through the 1870s and into the early 1880s, adding groceries by 1883, and first as a builder in 1889-90. In 1891 he spent $63,500 assembling property on 136th Street and began the ten-house row at 414 to 432 that includes No. 422. Every building he is known to have put up is in the Bronx, and once the row was complete he moved onto the block himself.

    “…developer Edward D. Bertine who spent $63,500 amassing property on 136th Street in 1891. Little is known about Edward Bertine.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1891

    No. 422 keeps its original door and the stained-glass transom numbered 676

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    Nos. 422 and 424 were designed as near mirror images, each with a segmental-arched entry and a wide window group beside it. No. 422 still has its original door and original window arrangement, a central one-over-one wood sash dropping into the rock-faced stone base between two smaller windows, all under stained-glass transoms. The transom over the door keeps the old address number, 676, and a band of projecting-brick diaperwork runs between the second and third stories.

    “…stained glass transom (the transom at No. 422 retains the original address number -- 676)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1900

    Salesman Isaac Cohen shares 422 with his wife Bertha, his in-laws and a Swedish servant

    According to the 1900 census, No. 422 was the home of Isaac Cohen, a salesman, and his wife, Bertha. Their household also included a son, Cohen's in-laws, who had been born in Europe, and a servant from Sweden.

    “In 1900, No. 422 was home to Isaac Cohen, a salesman, his wife Bertha, his son, his European-born in-laws, and a Swedish servant.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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