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Preview119 Bergen Street
Brooklyn · built 1868
This overview looks at 119 Bergen Street, a residential property in Brooklyn Heights / Downtown Brooklyn, one of Brooklyn's oldest residential districts, known for its historic character and harbor views.
City property records date the construction of 119 Bergen Street to 1868. These same records describe the building as a one and two family home. It is situated on block 194, lot 47, and contains one residential unit.
As part of a neighborhood rich in history, this property contributes to the enduring residential fabric of Brooklyn Heights / Downtown Brooklyn.
This overview was generated from public records, including NYC property data.
Where it stands
The deed chain
No deeds have surfaced for this address yet. Ownership records often live only at the county recorder — when we find a transfer, the full chain will appear here.
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Search Kings (Brooklyn), NY's county recorder →NYC ACRIS Socrata open datasets — fully open bulk + API; Plot uses these natively. Pre-1966 deeds are scanned but not in the structured dataset. Index reaches back to 1966.
Residents across the decades
See the families who called this address home, census by census, 1880–1950.
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A century of newspaper sightings of this address — births, sales, the times it made the paper.
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Historical photos of this house and its block, curated from public archives.
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