436 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1895

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

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1895
No. 436 is planned as an early two-family rowhouse
The building permit for 434 to 440 East 136th Street, filed in 1895, called for each house, No. 436 among them, to hold two families: one on the first and second floors and the other on the top floor. Each floor got four rooms and a hall, including a windowless inner room in the middle, and kitchens seem to have been on the second and third floors. The 1900 census found only two of the four houses actually occupied by two households.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Real estate agent Alonzo Carr and a postal clerk share No. 436
In 1900, 436 East 136th Street housed real estate agent Alonzo Carr with his daughter and son. The second apartment in the two-family house was occupied by a post office clerk and his wife. Next door at No. 434, the builder Ernest Hammer likewise rented out his upper flat, to a day laborer.
“No. 436 was home to real estate agent Alonzo Carr and his family, consisting of his daughter and son; the second apartment was home to a post office clerk…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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