Need help with numbers on second line COMPLETED

[Michael ONeil]

I've had a loupe all over this and I still can't be sure. First line reads 223 Madison St NY but I need help with the numbers on the second address. Both lines are from the same hand.

I can make out the first 4, then not sure about the next two numbers - 3 or 8 followed by 4, 7 or 9?
And then it's a 1 followed by the same number as the first of the unknown from above (e.g. 3 or .

It's the address my GG Grandfather James O'Neil gave when witnessing his mother's will. Curiously there is a James O'Neil living at 434 East 13th Street in the city directory for that year and I know it looks like it could be that address, the problem I have interpreting it that way is because of this:

The two possible 3s in the second line don't look like the 3 in the 223 in the first line.
The second 4 does not look like the first which is clearly a 4.

[josey]

It does look like 434 to me - don't forget they often wrote with scratchy pens with nibs that deposited uneven amounts of ink [the M of Madison shows that]. I see what you are saying about the 3s, some seems rotated but few of us write completely consistently; writer was probably in a hurry.  There's also ageing of the document, unevenness in scanning to make thick & thin lines vary.

[ShaunJ]

I read it as 434 East 13th Street NY City

[lydiaann]

I totally agree with ShaunJ and Josey.

[Viktoria]

It seems to me that there two different styles of handwriting .
Words and numbers  differ greatly.
Would  that  be possible ?
Viktoria.

[arthurk]

I was about to say the same as Viktoria. "Residing at" does look much the same, and might have been written in advance by a clerk, but "NY City" at the end of the lines is very different - also the way "Street" has been treated, if that's what the first one is.

[Michael ONeil]

Cheers for the replies folks and I reckon I'll go with my initial gut instinct and what the majority seem to think here.

I won't bore you with the details but 434 East 13th Street opens up a whole can of worms for me but thanks again.

[josey]

I won't bore you with the details but 434 East 13th Street opens up a whole can of worms for me

  it's all part of the fun...