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Preview139 Bergen Street
Brooklyn · built 1873
This single-family residence at 139 Bergen Street is nestled in the charming brownstone blocks of Park Slope and Boerum Hill, a neighborhood that largely developed in the late 1800s. City property records date the construction of this building to 1873.
The property, located on block 195, lot 65, is described by city records as a one- or two-family home. Its construction year places it firmly within the period when these historic Brooklyn streets were being actively built out, contributing to the distinctive character of the area today.
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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