461 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.

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1902
George F. Pelham designs No. 461 as a ten-family New Law tenement
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No. 461 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
1959
No. 461 is converted to hold twenty families, with fire escapes added to the front
In 1959 No. 461, designed for ten households, was altered into a dwelling for twenty families. As part of the work, fire escapes were attached to the street facade; the row had been built with fire escapes only at the rear.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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