[155 28th Street, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]
Wandering around Greenwood Heights, west of Green-Wood Cemetery, I noticed this odd little residence. A record of an 1894 real-estate sale in The Brooklyn Eagle describes the property at 155 as a “two story frame house.” Was this residence already standing in 1894? Did it lose a story later on? The Municipal Archives no longer give a date of construction for properties in the 1939–1941 tax photographs, so the question will remain, for me, unaswered. I’m happy this morning just to post the photograph.
But I did traverse the rest of 28th Street west of the cemetery and found one similar residence.
[135A 28th Street, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]
The residence at 155 is long gone, but 135A is still standing.
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Very unusual, would be interesting to find the backstory behind those houses
Paul Drake is working on getting an operative to Greenwood Heights. I did enough looking to let me conclude that aside from random details about one-time residents (a marriage, a stabbing) I wasn’t going to find out anything about the buildings.
From looking at some real estate photos, looks like the first floor is accessible from the rear of the building. Maybe it was built before the others, and the street was built around the house
The only photo I can find is from the street. The house is 700 square feet — pretty small, and at least allegedly from 1910.
The much larger 135 is also (according to a real-estate listing) from 1910.
https://images.app.goo.gl/vVRqDdDaZL5pP5Xd6
I'm not sure what house that URL is showing, but if you click on “Visit,” you can see that 135A is something else, just as in Google Maps — still just one story, though zoning allows for additional stories to be built.
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