Background - In the 1953-1954 telephone directory Anna Barna’s address changes to 200 West 21st Street. Still in the postal code of 11, 200 West 21st Street is situated at
the southwest corner of Seventh Avenue. Her telephone number remained OR5-6228, a number she also retained when she subsequently moved to 220 West 21st Street
in 1954-1955, a seven-story building erected in 1920. A draft registration record reveals that André and Elizabeth Kertész lived at 152 West 20th Street in the early 1940s,
possibly until their move to 31 East 12th Street in 1944, which was followed by their transition to 2 Fifth Avenue in 1952. Is it a coincidence that Anna Barna lived in such
proximity? Today both 200 and 220 West 21st Street maintain their original residential status, with the former having commercial businesses on the ground floor. The last listing for Anna Barna in the New York telephone book is at the 220 West 21st Street address, which appears in the 1964-1965 directory. With this clue in hand, a record of the death on November 21, 1964, of a woman named Anna Barna was brought to light in the 1964 volume Deaths Reported in the City of New York. Anna Barna is a relatively common name. Was it our Anna Barna? The age of death listed in
the entry is 67, but the date of birth stated on the petition of naturalization for the Anna Barna we are seeking is August 24, 1901, which would have made her age 64 in November of 1964. The borough of the recorded death is Queens, not Manhattan. A medical examiner’s case
number is not stated, which if she was murdered, as per André Kertész’s assertion, a medical examiner’s report would seem warranted. etc etc
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