426 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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1889
January
William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg complete No. 426 in a row of fifty-one neo-Grec houses
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No. 426 was built as a rental house in a row of fifty-one brick houses for single families, stretching along the entire block between No. 406 and No. 506. William O'Gorman designed and built them with his partner Hermann Stursberg, and the western group, Nos. 406 to 484, was finished in January 1889. The houses east of No. 450 came down in the 1960s to make room for P.S. 40 and its playground.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1890
The police census of 1890 finds tenants already living at No. 426
A year after the row was finished, the New York Police census of 1890 recorded residents at No. 426, one of the houses that made the first group about two-thirds occupied. Of the later group farther east on the block, only two houses, Nos. 468 and 470, had anyone living in them that year.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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