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I’m gorging on my recently acquired copy of Bricks & Brownstone (Charles Lockwood) and I came across this quote by a Park Slope real estate broker in 1888–thought I’d share it:

“Houses on Eighth Avenue [in Park Slope], four-story brownstone residences, we sell for $28,000 and $30,000. The same class of dwelling in New York on the West Side, from Seventieth Street up along that fashionable section, command from $50,000 to $55,000 each, while some sell for $60,000.” (Lockwood, p. CP 58)