451 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1903

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.

1902
George F. Pelham designs No. 451 as a ten-family New Law tenement
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No. 451 is one of five five-story tenements at Nos. 441 to 461 drawn by George F. Pelham under a 1902 building application, matching the four Neville & Bagge buildings next door. Pelham's plans called for ten families per building: every floor split into a pair of six-room apartments, with a four-room janitor's flat and storage in the basement. The fronts are tan brick with limestone trim.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1956
No. 451 is split into four apartments per floor
Building records show that in 1956 No. 451 was subdivided to hold four apartments on each floor. George F. Pelham's plans had called for two six-room apartments per floor; No. 455 next door was divided the same way that year.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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