Brooklyn Heights brownstone needs TLC
Eye on Real Estate: Boarded-up windows and a chained front door at 194 Columbia Heights
Sad-looking 194 Columbia Heights has been languishing forever and a day.
This Brooklyn Heights Historic District brownstone is decrepit and uncared-for, an oddity on a prime block whose buildings have coveted frontage on the Promenade.
The Civil War-era brownstone with Renaissance Revival details has stood empty for as long as neighborhood residents can remember.
The front door is chained shut. The lights on either side of the door are broken. The front stairs are turning an ominous green, as though moss is growing on them.
Neglect is even more obvious on the side of the house that faces the Promenade.