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The (Mostly Lost) Houses of Shore Road

Once lined with grand homes complete with stunning waterfront vistas, today Shore Road is dense with apartment buildings constructed to support a booming Bay Ridge population in the 1940s. These are a few of those lost houses (and a couple that remain)!

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9601 Shore Road
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9601 Shore Road

A porch long gone.
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9511 Shore Road
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9511 Shore Road

Who doesn't love a house with a tower?
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119-25 95th Street
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119-25 95th Street

This is the oldest house in Bay Ridge and one of the oldest free-standing Greek Revival houses in Brooklyn. It was moved from Shore Road to 95th Street in the 1910s.
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9411 Shore Road
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9411 Shore Road

Check out those arched windows!
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9101 Shore Road
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9101 Shore Road

A once sprawling Shore Road mansion.
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7401 Shore Road
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7401 Shore Road

A porch plus two balconies!
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7001 Shore Road
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7001 Shore Road

This narrow wood-frame home once stood alone here, but it is now surrounded by brick apartment buildings.
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