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May 5 '12
In Brooklyn Brownstone, Future President Found a Home on the Top Floor - NYTimes.comBy James Barron and Peter Baker; Photo © Michael Nagle for The New York TimesMay 2, 2012  The fact that Mr. Obama and his girlfriend at the time lived on the top floor in the mid-1980s was news on Second Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where the 109-year-old house is one in a handsome line of homes stretching toward Eighth Avenue … Roscoe Robinson, who now shares the top floor of the house with his brother, had not heard about it until a reporter rang the doorbell and showed him a printout of the excerpt. “You’re kidding,” Mr. Robinson, 21, said. The revelation … would add to Prospect Park’s claim that a future president used to run there.

In Brooklyn Brownstone, Future President Found a Home on the Top Floor - NYTimes.com
By James Barron and Peter Baker; Photo © Michael Nagle for The New York Times
May 2, 2012 

The fact that Mr. Obama and his girlfriend at the time lived on the top floor in the mid-1980s was news on Second Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where the 109-year-old house is one in a handsome line of homes stretching toward Eighth Avenue … Roscoe Robinson, who now shares the top floor of the house with his brother, had not heard about it until a reporter rang the doorbell and showed him a printout of the excerpt.

“You’re kidding,” Mr. Robinson, 21, said.

The revelation … would add to Prospect Park’s claim that a future president used to run there.

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