425 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1900

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.

1900
January
Developer William O'Gorman finishes a two-story house at No. 425 in Walter Hornum's row
No. 425 is one of three pairs of two-story-and-basement houses in the row William O'Gorman developed on the north side of East 140th Street, designed by Walter H.C. Hornum. Work started in June 1897 and ended in January 1900. The row was planned as part of a larger project, with eleven more buildings on through-block lots along East 141st Street, but that second row was halted in 1899 and dropped the next year.
“Construction on this parallel row, however , was suspended in 1899, and officially abandoned the next year.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1994
April 5
Landmarks report notes that No. 425 alone has lost its stoop handrail
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described this row for the Mott Haven East Historic District, designated on April 5, 1994, it cited No. 425 among the houses showing the row's matching glazed single-leaf wood front doors with transoms. Its stone stoop, however, was the only one in the row that had lost its cast-iron pipe handrail.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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