941 Newkirk Avenue
in 2009
This was the home of Amelia Leier and her children from about 1901 to the early 1930's. It's a 3-story, 1,565
square-foot, single-family, 8 room (5 bedrooms) house with front and back porches, and a fireplace. According to
zillow.com, the source of this photo, it went on the market in 2009, listing for $564,500, and sold within one month
for $679,999.
In 1901, the neighborhood was predominately Irish-American, Italian-American and Jewish. Today it is primarily
Afro-American and West Indian, with a large influx of immigrants from Haiti.
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