442 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. 442 is completed as part of a row of rental houses
William O'Gorman, who had moved his building business to the Bronx in 1875 and partnered with Hermann Stursberg, put up No. 442 as part of a row of identical rental houses. Each was sixteen feet eight inches wide, faced in Philadelphia brick with incised stone ornament and topped by a bracketed metal cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
German and Irish families rent the houses on the row around 1900
Census records from around 1900 show that the single-family rentals in this row and its twin on East 139th Street were mostly home to German or Irish immigrants or their children, who often shared the house with relatives and a servant. Heads of household included a clerk, a tailor, an iron worker, a picture framer, an insurance agent and a horse dealer, and the rows also housed a fire chief, a newspaper editor and a physician.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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