432 East 136th Street
Mott Haven | built 1891
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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
Power company president George Moran lives at No. 432
The 1900 census listed George Moran, president of a power company, as the head of household at 432 East 136th Street. He lived there with his wife, Grace Moran, their daughter and an Irish servant. Down the row that year lived the lawyer Francis Haines at No. 428 and the real estate agent John Kirk at No. 430.
“In 1900, this was home to George Moran, the president of a power company, his wife Grace Moran, the Morans' daughter, and an Irish servant.”
- 1967
The first AIA Guide to New York City names the row the Bertine Block
The row at 414 to 432 East 136th Street, which ends at No. 432, was pictured in the 1897 book The Great North Side or Borough of the Bronx. The first edition of the AIA Guide to New York City, published in 1967, gave it the name "Bertine Block," after its developer, Edward Bertine. The 1988 edition stretched the name to every rowhouse later included in the historic district.
“…was given the appellation , "Bertine Block," in the first edition of the AJA Guide to New York City in 1967…”
- 1994
No. 432 mirrors No. 414 except for its third floor
No. 432 is the mirror image of No. 414 at the other end of the row, apart from the third floor, which never had No. 414's oval window. Its two top-floor windows instead flanked a panel of pale stucco with brick accents, and smaller stucco panels sat beside them. By designation in 1994 all of the stucco had been bricked over, and a glass-and-iron grille door had replaced the original entrance, probably in the early 1900s.
“…it never had the central oval window seen on that house. Here the windows originally flanked a field of light-colored stucco…”
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