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Vinegar Hill Historic District

Historic site · Vinegar Hill, New York

A Belgian-block street in the historic district

Three separate small groups of brick Federal and Greek Revival rowhouses, a mid-nineteenth-century firehouse and part of an early-twentieth-century industrial building, on streets that retain their Belgian-block paving. The houses are private residences; the district is viewable as streetscape.

History

Designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on January 14, 1997, under Designation List 276, LP-1952. The houses were built by John Jackson and his heirs between 1801 and the 1830s and, on the Sands family's lots, in the 1840s and 1850s.

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Three non-contiguous groups of rowhouses roughly bounded by Plymouth Street, the Brooklyn Navy Yard boundary, Front Street and Bridge Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Official website

Photo "A Belgian-block street in the historic district": Clyde Charles Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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