THE TERRORS OF ST. FELIX STREET (1898)
******************************************************************************************************************************** Brownstone Detectives investigates the history of our clients’ homes. The story you are about to read was composed from research conducted in the course of one of those investigations. Do you know the history of YOUR house? ******************************************************************************************************************************** (From the Brooklyn Times Union and the Brooklyn Citizen of Tues., 29 November 1898.) Harry, Marx and Jacob Hefter, aged 10, 12 and 14 years, were arraigned in the Myrtle Avenue Court this morning. Mrs. Louisa Selover, of 28 St. Felix street, was the complainant against the lads. She said they pelted her with snowballs on the street yesterday and also called her unspeakable names. She stated she had only recently moved onto the street, and that a lady neighbor told her the prisoners were “the terrors of St. Felix street.” The youngsters denied the annoyance charged. “The three youngsters,” noted the Brooklyn Citizen, had “decidedly Hebraic countenances,” and “Mrs. Selova was an excitable little woman” who “told her story with a good deal of trepidation.” The Magistrate gravely warned the boys about converting pedestrians into targets for snowballing and sent them home. “They live,” noted the newspaper, “at 17 St. Felix Street.” Follow @BrownstoneDetec Share ———————————————————————————————————————– The Brownstone Detectives Brownstone Detectives is an historic property research agency. Our mission is to document and save the histories of our clients’ homes. From our research, we produce our celebrated House History Books and House History Reports. Contact us today to begin discovering the history of your home.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE… (1776)
******************************************************************************************************************************** Brownstone Detectives investigates the history of our clients’ homes. The story you are about to read was composed from research conducted in the course of one of those investigations. Do you know the history of YOUR house? ******************************************************************************************************************************** In today’s great efforts to preserve our historical heritage, particularly as regards the ancient homesteads of our forebears, it gives great sadness to learn of the loss of old structures which once graced our city. One such house not only stood at one time as the last of its type, but it also had borne witness to historical events which contributed to the foundation of our country. Inside of the old Boughton House, which at one time existed close to the Wallabout Bay on Cumberland Street at about No. 33, George Washington had sat often in conference with his military leadership on the point of repelling the British occupational force during the Battle of Brooklyn. The “mansion,” which stood directly in line of the fortifications and redoubts thrown up by the Continental troops, found itself “smack in the middle” of these military improvements. It was an old-style dwelling of Dutch Colonial Architecture, with eaves and garrets, and was a true relic of Revolutionary times. There is no official record of when the house was erected, but around 1915 when workmen were repairing the roof, they found a shingle bearing the inscription “Erected 1727.” Later during the war, when Mr. Boughton’s house was used to quarter British soldiers,, the prison ship Jersey […]
