481 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1902

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
Neville & Bagge design the corner tenement of a row for Gaines, Roberts & Co.
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No. 481 is one of four five-story "New Law" tenements at Nos. 465 to 481 East 140th Street, built in 1901-02 on a building application filed in 1901, with Neville & Bagge as architects and Gaines, Roberts & Co. as developer. A matching row of five by George F. Pelham went up next door a year later. Gaines and Roberts also built tenements on East 136th Street, in what became the Bertine Block Historic District.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1994
No. 481 keeps the row's stained glass when the district is landmarked
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the row in its 1994 Mott Haven East report, the center stairhall windows of these tenements had once had stained-glass upper sash, and No. 481 still had it. Its entrance surround rests on paired pilasters with composite capitals. On its east side the report noted a bare party wall at the front and a windowed brick wall toward the narrower rear.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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