lot; taxes $2,880; listed at $600,000, 12 weeks on market (broker: McDonagh Properties) Brooklyn FORT GREENE $595,0001622 Washington Avenue 1,155-sq.-ft 1,155-sq.-ft 1,155-sq.-ft
doormen, dining area, h/w floors, terrace, pool in building; maintenance $711 , 48 tax-deductible; listed at $175,000, 2 weeks on market (Broker: McDonagh Properties) BROOKLYN FORT GREENE $462,000 385 Clinton Avenue 3-bedroom, 1-bath, 1,400-sq.-ft.
In winter, we were allowed to roam the whole property, building snow forts stocked with sticks of firewood and arsenals of snowballs to fling at anyone who came along.
The large courtyard of Mr. Khan's headquarters courses with activity, scores of tribesmen from Miran Shah and points beyond who come to affix their fingerprints to property titles, use the fort's bank, catch up with the news of weddings and feuds or pray at the small mosque.
"We were led to believe that the chateau was constructed in 1740," she says, but a little more digging -- literally -- revealed a set of medieval towers, painted beams and ceilings that show the property was actually a fort during the religious wars.
Now Mr. Gilbert has his eye on another site, New York's last remaining Revolutionary War fort, on private property in Riverdale.
A sign posted by Oyster Bay identifies the property as a Massapequa Indian fort, circa 1640, but does not mention that it is a National Historic Landmark.
When it could do so, the Ordnance Department removed its property to the Washington Arsenal, now Fort McNair, or transferred it to a still-garrisoned fort, though with post-war budget cuts, these were becoming few and far between.
Three forts or portions of forts were built on their property: Fort Simmons, Fort Mansfield, and Battery Bailey.
In 1785, the fort's lands became the property of the state of New York.
Representative Dick Armey, the House majority leader, was acting in the best interest of his constituents when he tried to promote legislation that would force the Belo Corporation, the parent company of The Dallas Morning News, to divest one of its three media properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, his spokesman said yesterday.
