mottstreet

Mott Street is actually in Manhattan, not Brooklyn. We'll fix this in the catalog record.

This is 158 and 160 Mott Street in Lower Manhattan, in what was then considered part of "Little Italy."

A look at the circa-2009 Google Street View shows 158 Mott Street's then-still extant distinctive facade and fire escape iron work.

Thanks TVL1970, someone else wrote to us to say this is in Manhattan and not Brooklyn. We will update it in the catalog records.

Here's a 2012 Streetview
The old fire escape ironwork on 158 Mott St was replaced between 2014 and 2016. The building was still there in the Nov 2024 Streetview

See also

12/24/1909 - see "East Side Turns Out to Bury 'Little Tim'", 12/25/1909 New York Times. Sullivan was a popular Tammany operative and gangster.

The hearse in the cited newspaper account has a rounded front, while this one has a sqare front. Might this instead be the funeral of "Big Tim" Sullivan, who died on Aug 31, 1913?

Yes, this is the funeral of BIG Tim, on September 15, 1913 -- not LITTLE Tim, who died in 1909. Big Tim's body was unidentified in the morgue for two weeks after its discovery on railroad tracks.

jimflanny and Wystan, Thanks for the info on this image and the others of the funeral of 'Big Tim' Sullivan. We will update this record as well as the other related images to reflect the details.