The Julius Liebman Mansion Sells
The Julius Liebman Mansion at 380 Clinton, which the LPC has referred to as “one of the most beautiful houses in Clinton Hill,” just sold for $3,800,000. It went on the market in 2009 for $5,500,000, and a year later the price was cut to $4,500,000. The final price is quite a nice deal for…
The Julius Liebman Mansion at 380 Clinton, which the LPC has referred to as “one of the most beautiful houses in Clinton Hill,” just sold for $3,800,000. It went on the market in 2009 for $5,500,000, and a year later the price was cut to $4,500,000. The final price is quite a nice deal for a 9,200-square-foot house on a 13,500-square-foot lot that also comes with a carriage house fronting Vanderbilt Avenue. The home previously belonged to a “faith-based residential program for men and women seeking help to overcome drug addiction,” according to Clinton Hill Blog; it’s unclear how it’ll be used now, but perhaps it will be an extremely spacious single-family? Here are some interior shots from when the home was on the market….swoon!
380 Clinton Avenue Now $1 Million Cheaper [Brownstoner]
Liebman Mansion Interior Revealed [Brownstoner] GMAP
Julius Liebman Mansion Hits the Market [Brownstoner]
RIP: April, 27, 2011, David Wilkerson, founder of Teen Challenge dies in car crash, age 79.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/April/Rev-David-Wilkerson-Killed-in-TX-Car-Crash/
That is cool, Mopar. I forgot to write something- I’m remembering that that first Teen Challenge (416 Clinton) was a house where Wilkerson and his young crew were taking in gang members who wanted to get off the streets. It was to be a *safe haven* for gang kids.
The kids would live there for a short period, then for reasons unknown to Wilkerson at the time, the kids would go back on the streets. He came to realize they left when they needed a *fix* and that most of them were heroin addicted. So that was his next “challenge”, to deal with their addictions.
He said in his book that he had to take his ministry to a new level; and to a belief that the God he served was more powerful than heroin and more powerful than addictions.
All of this is in Wilkerson’s book, “The Cross and the Switchblade”, aptly named because his workers often faced stabbings, but they would go out on the streets again to help the gang kids. This book is a fascinating story and likely online free of charge.
We think of drug-rehab for young people when we hear about “Teen Challenge”. That is what it means today, but from the book I think it began as somewhat of a *safe-housing* ministry and evolved to more than that. All of the Teen Challenge facilities came from this one place on Clinton Av in the late 1950’s and mushroomed all over the USA. Wilkerson, likely in his 80’s by now, is no longer involved in teen challenge from what I heard.
When I visited the Times Square Church years ago, this book was for sale in the lobby for a nominal production fee of $2.
Rob, you are a sewer of negative emotion. No one wants to hear it. You are one of the reasons I stopped regularly reading the comments on this blog years ago. I created an account today just to tell you that there are many people who would like you to put a lid on it.
I have done some work with the women of Teen Challenge. I can tell you that Teen Challenge has owned/owns many properties on that block – also, they are thrilled to have the money to further develop their upstate camp. I have also been in the house and it has a great deal of original detail. It has not been destroyed, however it has not really been restored either. As a person who has just completed a four year renovation of another Clinton Hill house, I would venture a guess that it will take millions more to restore this beauty.
Best to its new owners!
Rob, you need therapy.
That’s amazing to learn about Wilkerson. I read the “Cross and the Switchblade” — possibly the comic-strip version. I have also, weirdly, been to the Times Square Church.
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I’m a homo, who’s never touched a lady-part, but I’m pretty sure that kids come out of the other side.
im a homo too and according to my grandmother kids were shat out. deal. sorry but i sorta kinda agree with her. most kids truly are just shat out.
*rob*
“um wrong. if i shat out 4 kids”
I’m a homo, who’s never touched a lady-part, but I’m pretty sure that kids come out of the other side.
actually women make more money than men these days! seriously, look it up!
Uh… okay.
(looks it up)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disparity_in_the_United_States
Aaaand, you’re wrong. My work here is done.
whatever, rob.