Real Estate1854-04-09New York Herald
Anthony Bleecker
Auctioneer of record for the founding Windsor Terrace land sale: 800+ building lots in the Eighth Ward of Brooklyn and the Town of Flatbush, sold at the Merchants Exchange on Tuesday April 18 1854. The full notice appears in five separate insertions across the NY Herald, Sunday Dispatch, and NY Daily Tribune in March-April 1854.
Real Estate1854-04-25New York Herald
Anthony Bleecker (cottages)
Second auction notice referencing the same April 18 sale: 'cottages [on] Seely street and Vanderbilt street, Windsor Terrace, Flatbush, near Coney Island Plank Road, each with t[wo rooms?]'. The Seeley/Vanderbilt street grid persists today.
Accident1855-08-05Sunday Dispatch
(unnamed lady, sleighing accident)
An unnamed gentleman driving the Coney Island Plank Road near Windsor Terrace — 'the horse took fright and ran [up] the hill, throwing out the occupants; the lady was pitch[ed]...' First documented Windsor Terrace traffic accident.
Real Estate1869-11-29New-York Tribune
Charles Courter Esq
Owner of record selling another tract of Windsor Terrace land. Bleecker is again the auctioneer. The notice runs in the NY Tribune every day from November 29 through December 9, 1869 — 11 consecutive day insertions, the longest sustained newspaper advertising campaign for Windsor Terrace land we have on record.
Civic1882-08-04New-York Tribune
(several Windsor Terrace residents)
An organized group of Windsor Terrace residents petitions the Prospect Park commissioners to reopen the gate at Fifteenth Street and Seeley Street. The petition is denied — the commissioners note there is another entrance only 200 feet away — but the petition itself proves an organized resident community existed by August 1882.
Crime1885-08-31New-York Tribune
Thomas Major
Of Windsor Terrace, Flatbush. Charged with shooting Andrew Kassen at the Elberon Hotel in Coney Island on a Saturday night, for refusing to drink with him. Major fired through a window after being ejected from the bar. The bullet hit Kassen in the right arm; Kassen survived but Major remained in jail.
Killed1887-11-28New-York Tribune
Thomas Walsh (carpenter, 70) and Frederick Behrens (milkman, 55)
“Probably murder arising out of [a] petty quarrel — Windsor Terrace — what will probably prove [a] homicide occurred Saturday evening [in] the village [of] Windsor Terrace [in] the Town [of] Flatbush. For some time there h[ad] been bad feeling between Thomas Walsh, carpenter, age seventy, and Frederick Behrens, age fifty-five, milkman, grow[ing] [out of...]” Six months before the Aldermen vote that renames Braxton Street to Windsor Place, a documented homicide in the broader Windsor Terrace area.
Civic1888-05-22New-York Tribune
(Brooklyn Aldermen)
“The Aldermen yesterday changed the names: Braxton Windsor Place and Herkimer Brevoort Place.” The next-day NY Tribune report of the May 21 1888 Aldermen vote, independently corroborating the Brooklyn Eagle's same-day coverage. Two papers, two newsrooms, both reporting the same Brooklyn Aldermen vote within 24 hours. See the 1888 Rebrand finding.
Real Estate1888-12-08The New York Age
James Shells
From a social-news column in the leading Black newspaper of New York: “James Shells has bought the property [on] East 4th Street, Windsor Terrace, and has moved into his new quarters.” A documented Black homeowner buying into Windsor Terrace in December 1888, seven months after the May Aldermen vote.
Death1893-08-27The Sun
James Heeg
“James Heeg, Englishman, died [at] his home [at] Windsor Place, Brooklyn.” The earliest named-resident death we have for the block.
Death1898-02-02New York Evening Journal
Mrs Dawson (48) and Peter Simmons
“Mrs Dawson, who was forty-eight years old and lived [on] Livingston Street, went sleighing with [her] friend Peter Simmons [of] Monroe Street last night. Feeling faint, they stopped [at] her broth[er's] house [at] Windsor Place. [Mr] Van Horn was summoned. Shortly after the arrival [of] the physician, Mrs Dawson died.”
Domestic1906-12-08New-York Tribune
Waters family (employer)
“Typewriter and stenographer, competent young girl, salary [to] start, experienced. Address Waters, Windsor Place Brooklyn.” The Waters household at Windsor Place advertised this same position for four consecutive days, Dec 8 / 10 / 11 / 12 1906.
Crime1906-12-18New-York Tribune
Mrs George Clarke (mother) and Mrs Elizabeth Clarke (wife)
A Brooklyn bigamy case. Mr Clarke had a first wife, Mrs Elizabeth Clarke, who said yesterday that she would stand by her husband and believed him innocent; she arranged a New York firm of lawyers to defend him. His mother, Mrs George Clarke, lived [at] Greenwood Avenue, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn — the same street as the 1900 Riegel deed property.
Domestic1907-05-02New-York Tribune
(anonymous Windsor Place household)
“Gardener — head English, married, lady gentleman place, life experience [in] all branches [of] the profession, best references. Windsor Place Brooklyn.” The same head-gardener-position ad ran on May 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of 1907 — five consecutive days. The household was substantial enough to require a head gardener with formal references.
Civic1908-11-16The Sun
Charles Berberich
“Charles Berberich, policeman, attached [to] the Parkville precinct and living [at] Windsor Place, Brooklyn.” A documented Windsor Place policeman from the Parkville precinct, late 1908.
Crime1914-07-27The Evening World
Walter Parnell
“Walter Parnell, prosperous ship chandler, [at] Whitehall Street, Manhattan, and until [a] short time ago lived with his parents [at] Windsor Place, Brooklyn.” The story continues with Parnell getting the revolver and cartridges in Jersey City before [going to] Bridgeport, where he assaults a policeman. A Windsor Place son in trouble in Bridgeport.
Accident1917-01-09The Evening World
John Sexton
“John Sexton, [of] Windsor Place, Brooklyn, was painfully cut and bruised.” The story preceding John Sexton's injury describes Michael Llich [Lloyd?] of Tilden Street, Williamsbridge, with a broken ankle, broken wrist, and many bruises, and dislocated shoulder. The accident appears to have involved multiple victims.
Death1919-04-16New-York Tribune
Mrs Mattison
“She had been dead fifteen minutes when the nurse, after search[ing] the lower part [of] the house, found her suspended from one [of] the rafters. The Mattison home located [at] Windsor Place...” A documented Windsor Place suicide in April 1919; the OCR cuts off the address.
Killed1919-06-09The Evening World
Adolph Cantaslo (chauffeur)
“Adolph Cantaslo, chauffeur, [of] West 158th Street, Coney Island [Avenue?], was killed when two [vehicles owned by Mr] Aramo Dalgano [?] Island skidded and turned over [at] Prospect Park Southwest, near Windsor Place, Brooklyn, pinning him [beneath].”
Death1919-07-20(NY Tribune, alt LCCN)
Rev John Belford and Mrs Catherine Belford
“The Rev John Belford, pastor [of the] Church [of] the Nativity, Classon Avenue and Madison Street, died Friday [at] the Holy Family Hospital. Besides Father Belford, [he is] survived [by] his widow Mrs Catherine Belford...” The Belford household's Windsor Place connection appears in the next paragraph, but the OCR makes the specific street relationship unclear.
Killed1921-05-25The Evening World
George Dailey (8 years old)
“Or [the] grand boy killed [in front of his] mother [at] sight. George Dailey, who helped support his family, run down [by a] street car. George Dailey, eight, was killed... while crossing Prospect Park West [at] Pro[s]pect [Avenue] and Windsor Place, Brooklyn.” An eight-year-old boy who “helped support his family” killed by a streetcar at the corner of Prospect Park West and Windsor Place.
Crime1921-09-04NY Tribune and NY Herald
Mrs Louisa Auditore, Mrs Elsa Catanzaro, Frank Auditore, Joseph Catanzaro
Brooklyn society scandal. Mrs Auditore sues Mrs Catanzaro for alienation of the affections of Frank Auditore (her husband, brother of James Auditore the millionaire stevedore). The two families had lived together at one Windsor Place two-family house before the affair was discovered. Both the Tribune and the Herald run the story the same day. See the full Auditore-Catanzaro finding.
Real Estate1923-01-11Yidishes Tageblat
Galloway (real-estate broker)
“Doctor's opportunity — one-family corner house, residence and office together... entrance on Windsor Place, four office rooms and bath on the upper floor... established practice for sale. Galloway, Windsor Place Brooklyn.” This same classified ran in Yidishes Tageblat thirteen consecutive issues between January 11 and March 21, 1923 — a ten-week classified campaign by Galloway to find another Jewish doctor to buy a Windsor Place practice.
Death1894-01-03The Evening World
John Henry Korwan (41 Windsor Pl)
Tuesday-morning January 2 1894 death; funeral services held Thursday January 4 at 41 Windsor Place, Brooklyn. Members of Pythagoras Lodge, a Brooklyn Masonic / fraternal order, were respectfully invited to attend. The 1906 Sanborn confirms 41 Windsor Pl as a 2-story brick row house with party walls — a standard parlor-floor home funeral.
Crime1897-03-30New York Journal
Edward Williams (34a Windsor Pl)
Of 34a Windsor Place. Fined in cyclists' court for cycling at approximately twenty miles per hour on the Eastern Parkway cycle path on a Sunday afternoon, when the park speed limit was twelve. One of (at least) two cyclists ticketed that day for similar offenses.
Domestic1912-01-31The New York Herald
William Comto and Pflieger (34a + 26 Windsor Pl)
Two Windsor Place teenagers placed position-wanted classified ads in the same Herald column on the same day. “Willia[m] Comto, 34a Windsor Place Brooklyn” (public school graduate, Christian, willing, wishes office position) and “Pflieger, 26 Windsor Place Brooklyn” (wishes position [in] anything, trade preferred). The “a” suffix at 34a (and at 241a and 247a) indicates a west-side sub-divided rear-yard lot.
Real Estate1921-04-23The New York Herald
Edward McCoy → Ellen Henry (247a Windsor Pl, broker Harry Lewis)
Brooklyn Real-Estate Transactions column: “Harry Lewis sold for Edward McCoy the two-story dwelling 17x100 [at] 247a Windsor Place [to] Ellen Henry.” Six weeks before the Trump-managed sale of 241a Windsor Place (same broker Harry Lewis, same west-side back-yard-subdivision pattern, same 17-foot frontage, same 2-story house spec). The Trump deal is the cousin transaction.
Real Estate1921-06-03The New York Herald
Trump Realty Company → James MacAlpine (241a Windsor Pl)
Brooklyn Real-Estate Transactions column: “Harry Lewis sold for James Eden [to] James MacAlpine the two-story house 241a Windsor Place, 17x[100], [from] the Trump Realty Company Inc Old Brooklyn for the estate [of] Mrs Annie Kalkhof.” The Brooklyn real-estate operation founded by Friedrich Trump (Donald Trump's grandfather; d. 1918) was by June 1921 run by his widow Elizabeth Christ Trump and son Fred Trump. See the dedicated
Trump Realty 1921 finding for the full story.
Marriage1922-07-30The New York Herald
Mrs William Delaney + Loretta Maud Delaney (247a Windsor Pl)
Society column: “Mrs William Delaney [hosted a] surprise miscellaneous shower at her home at 247a Windsor Place for her daughter, Miss Loretta Maud Delaney.” Ellen Henry (who bought 247a from Edward McCoy in April 1921 through Harry Lewis) either resold to the Delaneys or rented to them within 14 months. The 247a property kept changing hands while the Trump-managed 241a stayed with MacAlpine.