More CH: Dean Street
Dean Street between Nostrand and Bedford Avenues. 1174 and 1172 Dean Street; 1178 and 1176 Dean Street. The South Side of Dean between Bedford and Nostrand includes ten lovingly maintained Queen Anne houses in a melange of brick, limestone, terra-cotta, wooden shingles, and spanish tile, with alternating stepped, peaked, and domed gables. Their new color…
Dean Street between Nostrand and Bedford Avenues.
1174 and 1172 Dean Street; 1178 and 1176 Dean Street.
The South Side of Dean between Bedford and Nostrand includes ten lovingly maintained Queen Anne houses in a melange of brick, limestone, terra-cotta, wooden shingles, and spanish tile, with alternating stepped, peaked, and domed gables. Their new color schemes are perhaps too colorful.
–AIA Guide to New York City, p.742
This is a prime example of the extremes that can occur in Crown Heights. The house in the foreground of the top Dean St. photo (barely in the picture) is in contract for over a million dollars. (A former house of the day, and a real beauty.) Six houses down you have abandoned houses, which have been such for as long as I can remember. A friend who lives on this block told me that several are owned by the same person who is just sitting on them. I only hope that the market can even itself out, and slow, gradual growth and improvement will occur so that we don’t have so much inequality on the same block, and in the neighborhood in general.
But boy, are those great houses!