440 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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1889
No. 440 rises in O'Gorman and Stursberg's East 140th Street row
This house was built as one of a long row of single-family rentals that local developers William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg filed plans for in 1887, soon after a new transit line opened just west of Willis Avenue. At the time, large tracts east of the block were still undeveloped and many lots had not yet been laid out. The row was finished in 1889, three years before its twin on East 139th Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1890
Tenants are living at No. 440 when police count the city in 1890
The New York Police census of 1890 found the first finished group of houses in this row about two-thirds occupied, and No. 440 was one of the addresses where residents were recorded. Of the row's later group farther east, only Nos. 468 and 470 had occupants that year.
“…residents were listed at Nos. 406 to 410, 414, 420, 424 to 434, 440, 446 and 448.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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