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Preview161 Hoyt Street
Brooklyn · built 1899
This property at 161 Hoyt Street is nestled in a part of Brooklyn known for its late 19th-century development, bridging the vibrant neighborhoods of Park Slope and Boerum Hill. It sits on block 386, lot 5, a common layout for the area's residential blocks.
City property records date the building's construction to 1899, a period when many of the surrounding blocks were being filled in with new homes. Records also describe its building class as one- and two-family, and it currently contains two residential units.
The home contributes to the rich historical fabric of these beloved Brooklyn neighborhoods, offering a glimpse into their residential past.
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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