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Preview177 Water Street
Brooklyn · built 1880
This historic property at 177 Water Street is located in Brooklyn's venerable Brooklyn Heights / Downtown Brooklyn area, a neighborhood long celebrated for its harbor views and charming residential character. City property records date the building to 1880, placing it within a period of significant development for this part of Brooklyn.
The building is described in city records as mixed residential and commercial, a common feature in many of Brooklyn's older neighborhoods. It currently contains three residential units on its lot, block 30, lot 24. This blending of uses speaks to the evolving nature of Water Street and the surrounding area over the decades.
This overview was generated from public records, including NYC property data.
Where it stands
The deed chain
No deeds have surfaced for this address yet. Ownership records often live only at the county recorder — when we find a transfer, the full chain will appear here.
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Search Kings (Brooklyn), NY's county recorder →NYC ACRIS Socrata open datasets — fully open bulk + API; Plot uses these natively. Pre-1966 deeds are scanned but not in the structured dataset. Index reaches back to 1966.
Residents across the decades
See the families who called this address home, census by census, 1880–1950.
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