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Preview157 Court Street
Brooklyn · built 1910
This building, located at 157 Court Street, stands in the historic Brooklyn Heights / Downtown Brooklyn area, a neighborhood renowned for its picturesque setting overlooking the harbor and its status as one of Brooklyn's oldest residential districts.
City property records date the building's construction to 1910. These same records also describe it as a mixed residential and commercial property.
The lot, identified as block 279, lot 20 on the tax map, contains six residential units, contributing to the vibrant streetscape of this well-established Brooklyn community.
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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