The birthplace and boyhood home of New York Giants football legend Roosevelt Brown was here. His grandmother Virginia Tyler Jackson, then a 30-year-old widow, bought the property in 1909, and the family lived here until their house was razed by the city for the 1958 Carver Recreation Center addition to the Jefferson School. Roosevelt’s sister Lyria distinguished herself as an educator, first at Burley High School and later as an elementary school principal in Ithaca, NY.