A five -bedroom colonial settlement, two bathrooms in Queens ‘Addisleigh Park Historical Park, once in the baseball icon Jackie Robinson during his brooklyn Dodgers’ glory days, is now looking for renting $ 5,000 a month, the post has learned.
Including nearly 3,000 square meters, apartment at 112-40 177th St. St. Albans offers a rare chance of renting part of the heritage of American sports and civil rights – as he is where Robinson lived when he captured the title of Dodgers’ first series of Dodgers in 1955.
The transition to St. Albans from Brooklyn in 1949 marked a new chapter for the Robinson family. With Jackie Jr. Near his third birthday and his wife, Rachel, waiting for their second child, Sharon, the couple exceeded their Flatbush apartment at Tilden Avenue.
Looking for more space, they traded proximity to the Field Ebbets for a larger home in this Queens stretch, joining an increasing enclave in the Addisleigh park.
This living community, already a port for black lamps, had begun to thrive, despite its origin as a rationally restricted periphery.
The transformation of St. Albans traces again in its early days as a railway periphery for white families fleeing urban density in the 1900s. By the 1930s, restrictive covenants – private agreements embedded in property works – made for racial division in home sales, a common northeast practice.
Although the Supreme Court had overturned the state -encouraged separation in 1917, these covenants continued, was often required for deaths supported by FHA. The change came in 1948 with Shelly v. Kraemer, who considered such irreplaceable restrictions, hitting the door for black families to be settled in St. Albans.
“There was a restrictive covenant in works where homeowners were not allowed to sell anyone outside the white race,” said Nadine Morance-Mohs of Jayymy Realty LLC, the home list agent. “And it was a neighbor who was angry by one of his neighbors when he was moving and selling his home in an African-American.”
That act of opposition, as well as the court’s ruling, aroused a change.
“It is challenged that it is illegal for these works to have a restrictive covenant, the reason why many sports and entertainment shifting were moved to this neighborhood,” she added.
Until the 1940s, jazz legends like Count Basie and Fats Waller had taken root there, turning St. Albans into a cultural center. Robinsons arrived in 1949, after Dodgers Roy Campanella’s teammate, which was located there a year ago.
“So when Jackie Robinson moved here, he moves with one of his best friends who owned a nightclub in Harlem, from there a lot of fun … they also learned about the neighborhood, and they also move in the neighborhood,” Morency-Mohs added.
The list grew illustrating: Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, James Brown and the heavyweight Joe Louis champion everyone called it at home.
“They all lived in this neighborhood around the same in the 40s and ’50s,” she said. “This is when the neighborhood started to change.”
For Robinsons, the mass brought mixed blessings. Fans gathered on their doorstep, eager for family eyes.
“Usually, Rachel was diplomatic with the interveners,” Jackie Robinson later wrote. “But some of the freedoms people received took her nerve.”
Looking for privacy, they moved to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1954. However, their legacy in Queens Duro, then in a neighborhood that became a symbol of racial progress.
The current owner, who bought residence in 2005 for $ 525,000, is now reducing.
“Both [the] The children moved. One is in college, receiving a legal degree, and the other is simply moved out and starting on its own, “Moreny-Mohs said.” so [the owner] It was like, ‘I don’t need a big house, but I don’t want to leave this part of history. I don’t want to sell my house. So far is the time to rent it. ‘”
Renewed over the years, the house maintains its original appearance and wood burning fires.
Today, the Addisleigh Park commands the prices of prices, with a house on average below $ 1 million, but recently trading on that threshold.
Assisted a historic circle in 2011, the immediate area boasts a tight community with holiday events and monthly meetings. Easy access to transport is an added benefit.
“Likes like a community under the radar and is also moving distance to the Long Island railway. So someone can be in the city during the Russian o’clock and about 15 to 18 minutes. It is also 15 minutes at JFK airport,” she said.
Located in an 11,000 -square -foot, rental addition features an official living room with a fireplace, a dining room, a gallery kitchen, a sun room and a spacious step in the backyard from parks and schools.
Robinson was the first black person to play at Major League Baseball.
During his career of his decade at MLB, he won the first Rookie of the Year award in 1947, secured the status of all attitudes for the sixth season of the direct season from 1949 to 1954, and claimed the most valuable prize of the National League player in 1949, becoming the first black player to receive this allocation.
Robinson participated in six world series. In 1962, his inaugural year of acceptance, he was in the famous baseball hall.
In 1972, he died of a heart attack at the age of 53 at his home in Stamford.
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