The Emhoffs’ old place. Photo: Google Maps Douglas Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s husband, will soon become America’s first Jewish vice-presidential spouse. That’s a lot of adjectives for someone who seems like a pretty normal husband, particularly after the otherworldly marriages of Melania Trump and Mother Pence. Emhoff is, to a degree, a New York kid: He was born in Brooklyn, and his family background is as archetypical as a Spaldeen.
His parents moved there around 1962, a couple of years before Doug was born. It’s a solid-looking building near Avenue J, a couple of blocks from Brooklyn College, middle-class then and middle-class now. Rents today are about $1,600 for two bedrooms, with some Section 8 tenants. The area was predominantly Jewish at mid-century, and today it has a lively mix of many immigrant groups and a sizable Orthodox population.
Before they moved to Ocean Avenue, the newlywed childless Emhoffs briefly lived on East 15th Street, in an area that is today sometimes lumped in with Midwood but was then considered Flatbush. Nineteen-year-old Bernie Sanders was living 11 blocks south of the couple, on East 26th Street. Nine-year-old Chuck Schumer was five blocks further away, on East 27th.
Curbed could not quite get the vice-president-elect’s office to comment on all this, beyond a friendly statement noting that it was unable to confirm the address. To be fair, Kamala Harris’s people, backed by the Second Gentleman’s, have a nation to fix.
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