431 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1931

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

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1897
Rachel Juster of Stanton Street commissions the tenements at Nos. 429-431
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Rachel Juster, a Lower East Side resident with a home on Stanton Street, commissioned four old-law tenements at 429 to 435 East 136th Street in 1897-98 from the architect Harry T. Howell. Each five-story building held eleven apartments: two on every upper floor plus one in the basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Forty-five people in nine households live at No. 431, a census shows
The 1900 census counted 45 residents in nine households at 431 East 136th Street, all headed by men, among them a restaurant waiter, a "decorator artist," a grocer and a clothing cutter. Six of the men were American-born and one each came from Switzerland, Germany and Russia. None of the wives worked outside the home, but six of the 23 children had jobs, including a bookstore clerk and a shirtwaist presser.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1994
Nos. 429 and 431 are rehabilitated and joined into one building
By the time of the 1994 historic district designation, the tenements had recently been rehabilitated, and No. 429 had been joined on the inside to No. 431, its neighbor to the east. The front door of No. 429 was closed up and fitted with a window. No. 431 kept its central round-arched doorway and a shallow stoop with stone cheek walls, though every original window and door on the group had been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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