435 East 136th Street
also 431 East 136th Street | Mott Haven | built 1931
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1897
Bronx architect Harry T. Howell designs the tenement group that includes Nos. 433-435
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Nos. 433 and 435 East 136th Street belong to the first of two groups of four five-story tenements built on the block between 1897 and 1899. Each group had a different client, but the Bronx architect Harry T. Howell designed both. Little is known about Howell beyond his first directory listing as an architect in 1897 and an office he kept until at least 1918.
“Although each group was commissioned by a different client, all were designed by Bronx architect Harry T. Howell.”
- 1898
No. 435 is laid out as five-room railroad flats
The eight tenements in the historic district, No. 435 among them, were divided into five-room railroad flats. Rooms ran in a line without a private hall: a front parlor, two bedrooms in the middle facing tiny air shafts, and the kitchen, bathroom and dining room at the back. In 1900 the heads of household across the eight buildings included salesmen, clerks, painters, machinists and a telegraph operator.
- 1994
No. 435 absorbs No. 433 behind its arcaded front
The fronts of Nos. 433 and 435 have round-arched doorways set in limestone frames with fluted pilasters, a limestone band above the first floor, and two-story arcades across the third and fourth floors, under a continuous metal cornice. By 1994 No. 433 had been joined inside to No. 435; its entrance was closed and given a window, while No. 435 kept its doorway and shallow stoop.
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