Brooklyn
Borough President Marty Markowitz purchases $1.45 million home in Windsor
Terrace
Erin Einhorn and Erin Durkin. NY Daily News
The king [sic] of Brooklyn has a castle.
Lifelong tenant Marty Markowitz is trading his Park Slope rental for a home
of his own - a two-story, three-bedroom brick house in Windsor Terrace.
The borough president and his wife, Jamie, dropped $1.45million on the new
house - a semidetached home nestled on a tree-lined street a block from Prospect
Park - on Nov. 30 with a $417,000 mortgage.
"I've always been a tenant, all my life. This is the first time I'm
a property owner," Markowitz said. He plans to move into the house "sometime
in January."
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Congratulations to the BEEP on his new home!
There is only one problem. It seems to be underutlized. It also looks like there
are a few sidewalk cracks, and we can't be sure but that bush looks more like
a big patch of weeds. And it looks like the mortar is cracking in some spots.
In other words, we're sorry to inform the Borough President that his new home
is blighted and must be taken by eminent domain. Because, it really could serve
a better purpose than housing him and his wife.
Them's the breaks.
