I was looking at a ship record in the year 1902 that had information about
my wife's grandfather. What caught my eye was that the list of names on
this page were almost all bracketed together as going to 410 E 5th street in
New York.
Would anyone know what was at this address and how it affected the new
arrivals.

Errol Schneegurt NY
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Were they all >from the same home town? I have run into quite a few de facto
landsmen residences. For example, it seems that around that time there were
a few blocks in E. Houston St. which required a Buczacz-issued photo ID to
enter...

Meron LAVIE
Oranit, Israel

I would recommend several approaches:

-look for detailed historic maps of that area in the David Rumsey collection
at www.davidrumsey.com.

-look for detailed historic maps of the area in the map section of the NYPL
website:
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdivisionbrowseresult.cfm?div_id=hm

-go in person to the Map Division of the NYPL on 42nd St. to look at Sanborn
Maps. Better yet, find a library closer to you which subscribes to ProQuest's
Sanborn Maps Geo Edition. (This service is not available to individuals, only
available to institutions.)
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/gsm.shtml

Ron Arons
Oakland, CA
www.ronarons.com

I went a bit further than in my last response...

I found the following NYPL website which has links to numerous atlases and
Sanborn Maps for NYC.

I then selected the Bromley Atlas for the City of New York for 1898-1899.
This brought me to a set of plates (maps). I browsed until I found the
correct one: Plate 28 (on page 2)

I then double-clicked on the map which opened up a new window which allowed
me to zoom in and pan.

410 E. 5th St was east of 1st Avenue. Just to the west, on the southeast
corner of 1st Avenue and E.. 5th Street there was a NYPD precinct station.
Just west of there (on E. 5th and E. 4th Sts, were PS 25 and PS 26, respectively.

Ron Arons
Oakland, CA
www.ronarons.com