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# The ‘Murder House’ At 33 Hinckley Place Is Torn Down To Make Way For A New School
- URL: https://bklyner.com/murder-house-33-hinckley-place-torn-make-way-new-school-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2015-02-25T18:45:25.000Z
- Updated: 2015-02-25T18:45:25.000Z
- Author: Anna Gustafson
- Tags: Hinckley Place, #API-Imported

![Photo via David Gallaher](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murder-house-demolished.jpg)

Photo via [David Gallaher](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153753812543438&set=o.335119629863420&type=1&theater)

A home at 33 Hinckley Place, which has been abandoned for more than a decade and was deemed [“The Murder House”](/blog/holidays/local-haunts-10-spine-tingling-spots-to-visit-in-around-ditmas-park-2) after [a 57-year-old homeless woman was killed there](http://nypost.com/2011/06/30/nypd-daily-blotter-3272/?ref=bklyner.com) in 2011, has been torn down to make way for the incoming [P.S./I.S. 338](/blog/education/psis-338k-completion-pushed-back-to-2017-other-updates-on-local-schools).

Thanks to neighbor David Gallaher for [posting the above picture](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153753812543438&set=o.335119629863420&type=1&theater) of the demolished house, which was [gutted by a fire in 2013](/blog/crime/2nd-alarm-fire-at-33-hinckley-pl-last-night) and was the bane of many a neighbor’s existence after it was abandoned more than a decade ago, with neighbor Valerie D’Orazio writing in her [Murder House photo essay](http://comicspaladin.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-end-of-murder-house.html?ref=bklyner.com) that the home was a graveyard for dead TV sets, ripped-out car seats, broken bricks, and much more.

![33 Hinckley Place, before it was torn down.](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/33-Hinckley-Place-The-Murder-House.jpg)

33 Hinckley Place, before it was torn down.

Valerie [writes in her essay](http://comicspaladin.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-end-of-murder-house.html?ref=bklyner.com), which followed the 2013 fire:

> Murder House used to be a normal house — that’s what they tell me. But some time more than a decade ago, it was abandoned. We’re talking a house, a very large yard next to it, and some sort of small “cabin.” All left to rot. A child’s pink tricycle drowning in a sea of overgrown weeds. The corpses of several dead TV sets, bags of garbage dumped in the hard black shells. Ripped-out car seats. And stacks of broken bricks, bleached light after many summers — still standing to this very day on the charred porch, as if ready to be used for much-needed repair.

> Murder House was, you will no doubt be surprised to learn, a magnet for drug addicts, prostitutes, and the homeless. In fact there was apparently an entire eco-system of the shadow-side of society living within its walls.

Even long before the house was abandoned, the site has had an interesting history, with its owners in 1911 [trying to sell it](http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%207/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201911%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201911%20Grayscale%20-%204932.pdf?ref=bklyner.com) with the line “people leaving town.”

Now the property, which is owned by the city’s School Construction Authority, will be part of P.S./I.S. 338, which will be located at 510 Coney Island Avenue between Turner Place and Hinckley Place.

Construction for the school is set to begin this spring, and the five-story school is anticipated to open in September 2017 with 757 seats for children in pre-K through eighth grade. According to the city SCA, there will be two pre-K, three kindergarten, and 29 standard classrooms, as well as a cafeteria and kitchen, library, gym, outdoor recreation space, and more.

A ribbon cutting for the school had been planned for January 27 but was canceled in the face of what we now know was the very non-apocalyptic [Winter Storm Juno](/blog/weather/snow-ditmas-park-storm-photos). The ribbon cutting is expected to be rescheduled, but not date has yet been set.