424 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
German and Irish families rent the houses of the row that includes No. 424
The houses on East 139th and 140th streets, No. 424 among them, were rented out when first built. Census records from around the turn of the century show tenants who were usually German or Irish immigrants or their children, often sharing the house with extended family and one servant. Heads of household included a draughtsman, an iron worker, a wool importer, a horse dealer, a glue broker, a pilot, a fire chief, a newspaper editor and a physician.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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