76th Street Historic District Brooklyn, New York 1915 Newspaper Advertisement for Our Block (76th Street Between 6th and 7th Ave, Brooklyn) 1924 Aerial Photograph of Our Block (76th Street Between 6th and 7th Ave, Brooklyn) 1915 Survey of House No. 653 (76th Street Between 6th and 7th Ave, Brooklyn) Best for Urbanites | Best Old House Neighborhoods 2011 | Photos | Home & Real Estate | ... Page 1 of 2 Subscribe to This Old House Magazine Make This Old House My Homepage Home Planning and Ideas Home & Real Estate Best Old House Neighborhoods 2011 Advertisement Best Old House Neighborhoods 2011 By: KEITH PANDOLFI, This Old House magazine Single Photo Thumbnails 7 of 15 Best for Urbanites Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York • Great views of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge • A small town in the middle of a big borough • Hit a Norwegian bakery, an Italian butcher, and a Middle Eastern grocery, all on one block This Old House > To Go The Neighborhood Once home to thousands of Norwegian shipbuilders and Italian and Irish immigrants, this old-school Brooklyn neighborhood on New York Harbor's Add ThisOldHouse to my: My Yahoo! shores is a down-home kind of place. Advertisement Families walk together after church on Sundays or gather at the locally owned restaurants, pizza parlors, and bakeries that line Third Avenue. "We like things subdued here," says Victoria Hofmo, who grew up in the community of 70,000. "We Photo: Courtesy of Rosemary McHugh also like all the green space, the PRINT MAIL RSS FEED SHARE ...MORE waterfront access, and the village atmosphere. We've got it all." Rosemary | Tue 3/1/11 01:01 PM This photo was taken by my cousin, visiting from Ireland, Ciaran The Houses McHugh.Thanks Ciaran! This block was designed by Frederick Two- and three-story single- and multi- William Eisenla, and built by Patrick J. Carley in 1914/1915. Senator family brick and brownstone rowhouses Street Historic District in Bay Ridge is another example of are common, as are wood-and-stucco Renaissance Revival Rowhouses designed by Eisenla. It is on the Tudor-style and limestone-front Renaissance Revival rowhouses. This is National Register of Historic Places. See More on Home & Real Estate New York City, of course, where Reply affordable means anything under seven Galleries Articles Videos figures. A two-story brick rowhouse with ADD NEW COMMENT original millwork and pocket doors might View All Home & Real View All Galleries go for $500,000. A restored 1930s Tudor Estate Galleries The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete rowhouse recently listed at $558,000. your comment. If you see inappropriate language, report the comment Renaissance Revivals start at $700,000. to us. Why Buy Here? It's just over an hour by subway to Your Name midtown Manhattan. Young families and Best Old House Best Old House professionals are coming for what is now Neighborhoods 2010: Neighborhoods 2010: Easy unattainable in most New York City nabes: Walkability Commutes Your Comment (Required) a single-family house. Shown: Would-be Bay Ridge folks covet the Renaissance Revival rowhouses with limestone facades, most of which are 645 characters remaining located on shady streets like this one. Best Old House Best Old House Neighborhoods 2010: Neighborhoods 2010: History Happened Here Outdoor Activities Among the best for: The Northeast, Waterfront, City Living, Family Friendly, Active Discussions: Home & Real Estate Walkability, Rowhouses http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20469145_20917125,00.html 3/1/2011 2011 Photographed for the This Old House Website https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/best-old-house- neighborhoods-2011 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE! TSTEW YOBK WEDNESDAY, DECF^rBER 2, 1914. 15 : man ,, .....:. .,..'-. $3,500 Barry'..E-B N 17 Young $309.24 man av, 60x100, Jan- foreclosure.. .12.549.50 4J3-5. Floral l>rk Monies ..S..00-) JO SELL BATH RFACH LAMD faras.wi jame.Ior O CK, D y e r .. .......M,J*9 Coleman, .1 M-J KndeiUn Jr... Jl.054.03 Parrel!. F B, :o •. 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H to I Goldberg omitted I Uebler^ A —E S Alpiugh.. & iCo.„.. .$4.2.10 rp&rk " .* ,~™rr".V'"-fl'i" *"s UU«r to C Meyer; lor Wr m a p -Meadow- of Gilmore vs. Richfnan. BtcKfOi'd,- It.' as"admx &c A" J" FHlW;K,-.» I.evij6ti. J J^-\i Montgomery " K iV*! 0»tehous» Brother, Inc. to -1Y B Swan &jmere .- |!,JC0 Home Title Int Co....- ./*....$3,500 Molloy. T J— w O'Neill PLAK 6 APARTMENTS l, McPhilliamy & Co., Auc- Corey, H. trustee, C M. McGuire. t6 .Mart & Rapson. A J-Amerlcan Radiator Co..V.Vl^H I JJ 0°' ,{l w ^Her ^ ' tl uu "a%v ^^'"h&mlni Assignments of Mortgages. Sales Amounting to'$10d,000 MXJu'.re Co $2,000 Tuck, A J-Garden City Co JS5.-.4 I HalL " ,l , " * » «- $10 B SchwaJb to W Schwalb $1 Rockaway Park Co to F R Stanforth..nom I Ureen. L H. to M A McCarty, lots 19, j H Durhociz to C I Rosen $1.60) tioneers—Sale Dec. 10. Wermann, H, to C Mushacke $4,000 Mcchnntcs Liens. 120. blk 1.'5, map Auburnaale. nom J A Phllbrlck to H Kranken JJ.tvO Closed at Great Neck, L. I. Katie. E P* to Bklyn Trust Co 19.250 DECEMBER L Same to same, lots 16 to 19 ino, blk 105. E L Bennett to J Bedel! $:.*» }, FOR BOROUGH PARK Dubbs. C C. to W DeGrart $3,500 Jefferson av, « e, 100 ft n Jenson ar, 20x100, lots 10 to 13 Inc. blk. 113. map Auburn-! \Y Johnson to J Cornwell $500 Legal Notices. Development. __*_._„;_ _ Bursch. F W J, to M. T OlBtlea ••V^.Ji.OW BImburst. S M Greene, claimant, sgst E John- dale , nom 1 A P Hlgble, exrs. to H S Potter Realty Co..$l Ybrit.Tf F,~W Bit' Earle H.5W ston, owner, J W'eeks, contractor $42.50 V CO'.'NTY COURT. KINGS COUNTT- l.ots 8 to 15, inc. bk "4. map No 8, Wood- Grant. C, to W D Losee. 726 Hatch av. B Carman to J Post .$'. Oeorge D. Gilmore. plalntirf. against John H. <" Hosford, C K. to J H Lamb $3.6v0 Richmond Hill, lots *09. «U. $14, map; I. Suydam to Floral l»«rk Bank $.'••.<) \ '. Sheridan, M. as adnix &o A Farrell, to t*J hfcven, SUr Wood Turning Co, claimants, ag»t ,,..,1 Rlchman, and other?., defendant*—In pur- Slock Front on Fifteenth Aver The RIckert-Finlay Realty Company "Kels & auo, as trustees for H Klein $350 H »robn'& gjio. owners $97 MUchcocks, Union Course ". nom B J Hopkins to J B Hopkins Jr. •.rrCl'. i »uance of a Judgment of foreclosure snd sals Ferris st.' s s. 130 ft w Wlllard ay, 59x100, Grenell, F A. to P Frledrlch, 85 Jefferson Same to same $1,000 j July made and entered In the above-entitled Title G & T.Oo.to B Maglnn ... ....110(11 »t, Bkln. Myitis av. s s, $4 ft e Willow st, has. reported three recent sales of'res- I-odge. G, to G Senfer ...»2.v00 Woodhaven, J F Relchard, claimant, agst C ' . , action, and bearing Jate the 17th day of nue to Be Improved With Mehr. E H, et al. to T Mehr »<50 C Mclnt)'re & aco, owners |1«*.15 20x81.11. Myrtle av, a s. UI.J w Centre St. -'"• " ConvejunceSr ! November. 1914, I. the undersigned, the'referee. idence- properties in Kensington-Great 23.10x66.4, Newtown nom $300 . Lawn av e sfl lio ft n Ubery av, 25x100, C H Frederick to L I Really Co. prop at j :n eaid Judgment named, will ?rll at publlo Ewen. E S, &. wife to h E Bush .. G X Mathews Co to O Hoerlg & ano, 3690 N'eck, Li I., aggregating $10t>,000. P F Emmet Co to L Frlsso A ano. ...,nom Ozone I'ark, Jamaica, Roofln* Co, elaimant, Merrick .. > ." ...:..nom j auction to the highest bidder, by WllMam J. Buildings. The latest, of these, which w a s con- -Marous Bids Co to A Benjamin .... „..noni agst A'Sorlqe, owner. A Sorlce, contractor.110* Par kav,. Bronx, Woodbine et,.x e t. 161.7 cluded this week, was the sale to Kd- Mason, A de W, to E S Mason- ... J5.000 iSCQ Mortgaged; wa.rd_J_ Afi-Orftth of Wost Knd avenue NUtl, .5. to D Benclvcnga game , to—same. ....... tiOO' DKCEMBKR L % 1 2 0 .