Destroying a Piece of Cypress Hills History

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A reader sent us the top photo of an old free-standing wood house in Cypress Hills scheduled for a dance with the wrecking ball courtesy of a developer who’s planning on slapping up seven two-family Fedders specials on that one lot. Quel bummer! The single-family house, located on a 95-by-112-foot lot (shown in the smaller pics courtesy of PropertyShark) at 148 Arlington Avenue, sold recently to a developer for $990,000. Any guesses as to what the current owner paid in 1997? $36,000, according to our tipster! A nice 27-bagger in seven years. Not too shabby. Anyway, our tipster also included some photos of other houses in the neighborhood which we’ll assume a healthy portion of our audience is as unfamiliar with as we are. We’re going to try to make it out there one of these next weekends. Can anyone fill us in on the recent history of the area? GMAP P*Shark

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By Brownstoner |