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Post-War 1940-1975Block 1112 • Built 1901

48 Windsor Place

57 Years -- The Current Longest

Rosalie Keenan has owned 48 Windsor Place since 1968 -- 57 years. She bought it from Bridget Naughton, whose Irish surname places the property squarely in the original wave of Windsor Terrace ownership. Oral history connects this address to 'Maureen,' the lifelong friend of Brandan Gonzalez's mother across the block at 28A.

48 Windsor Place — 1940 NYC tax photograph

48 Windsor Place• NYC Municipal Archives tax photograph, c. 1940

Documented Tenure

57 years (1968-present) -- current longest on block

Deed Chain

pre-1968

Naughton, Bridget

Bridget Naughton held the property before 1968. Irish surname consistent with the first-wave ownership pattern.

1968

Sale

Naughton, Bridget → Rosalie Keenan

Rosalie Keenan purchases at 48 Windsor Place. Begins what will become the current longest tenure on the block.

1968-present

57 consecutive years. No recorded sale or transfer in ACRIS. Still the current record on the block.

Connections

Oral history connects this address to 'Maureen' -- the childhood best friend of Brandan Gonzalez's mother at 28A.

Bridget Naughton's Irish surname connects the property to the 1900-1930 Irish immigration wave.

57 years of ownership across a period covering the 1970s neighborhood stress, the post-war plateau, and the gentrification boom.

Sources

The Block

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