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The Brooklyn Allergist’s Office That Was Once Home to a Spy

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor descended from Horace Greeley.

© Clark Hodgin for The New York Times

Since around 1912, four generations descended from the renowned New-York Tribune editor Horace Greeley have lived at 140 Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights. Many have been doctors.
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