Out-of-Context Brownstones in Vinegar Hill
We drove through Vinegar Hill on Sunday on the way to Brooklyn Bridge Park and were reminded how fun it is to find pockets of charming brownstones out of context. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Vinegar Hill was an Irish working class neighborhood (where many of the maids for nearby Brooklyn Heights lived)….
We drove through Vinegar Hill on Sunday on the way to Brooklyn Bridge Park and were reminded how fun it is to find pockets of charming brownstones out of context. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Vinegar Hill was an Irish working class neighborhood (where many of the maids for nearby Brooklyn Heights lived). The area was cut off from the rest of Brooklyn when the BQE was built. Now that several of its streets are designated historic districts and Dumbo is booming, its fortunes have obviously changed. Does anyone know if any of these houses have been on the market in the recent past? How are they priced versus other brownstone nabes?
i don’t care who lives in vinegar hill….i am just furious at nyself for not making THE MOVE a few years ago when my husband i separated. damn! more bad timing. this is?was the nosr romantic area in NYC….it will always remain a dream i could never have.
Right – talk about ‘out-of-context’ – The Commodore or Commander’s house – for the Bklyn Navy Yard – around the corner on Evans St.
You walk thru these quiet eerie streets – then turn and a big gate – a real driveway filled with some
collectable autos, green lawns, and a free standing white mansion…and you have to ask – How did this get here?
Is owned by researcher at Rockefeller U. I think they bought from the Navy.
we backed out a deal to buy one of those little “carriage houses” around Little Street. I have literally never seen shoddier (sp?)) construction. I have seen crap — but this was super crap.
Mr BrownStoner, have you seen the big mansion on the hill in V Hill?? Ship Captains house, rumor is sold for 200K in 70’s to two Columbia professers…..
oy – Now curbed.com picked up on that lesbian takeover comment and has it on their website…
this is how rumors start.
There seems to be a significant new development –
don’t know if rental or condo – some with garages – abutting the Navy Yard/ConEd – in Vinegar Hill – I think Evans/ Little street – but haven’t seen any ads for it or ariticles yet.
http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/brooklyn/vinegarhill/historicdistrict/
More interesting pictures for vinegar.
It is intryging but i would never wanted to buy there (we have seen one house there 1.1 frame with comercial first floor – use as apartment illegaly – aparently there is no buissneses left in VH )
“Out-of-context” we meant to refer to the fact that there are only a couple pockets of b’stones in the area that is otherwise dominated by projects on one side, utilities on another and warehouse buildings on another. So when you are approaching from any of those three perspectives and stumble across these houses, they feel out of context.
Vinegar Hill is a strange, forlorn place. It has the feel of a Twilight Zone episode. In the last two years I’ve been watching the market, I’ve seen at least one 3-story brownstone listed for a little over a mil. Regardless of the new developments cropping up over there, you have to expect that the incursions and resulting burglaries perpetrated by the residents of the Farragut Housing Projects over on York will probably keep a damper on prices.
What exactly does “out of context” brownstones even mean?