Brownstoner: Historic Clinton Avenue Villa Hits Market as Tear-Down, Wants $7.9 Million A historic Clinton Avenue house that has been in the same family for generations is on the market as a β€œprime development” site. A Brownstoner reader tipped us off to for-sale signs posted on the ... Thanks to Charles Pratt, the wealthiest man in Brooklyn, Clinton Avenue became a Gold Coast of mansions in the 19th century, but a housing shortage and changing tastes decades later saw many adapted ...

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