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Walter Cronkite?s New York Brownstone, Long Island
May 17, 2021
519 East 84th St.
Walter Cronkite?s Longtime New York Brownstone is for sale at $7.7 million!
Location: New York, USA

Source: TopTenRealEstateDeals.com

The longtime New York home of ?the most trusted man in America? is for sale at $7.7 million. Walter Cronkite, the CBS news icon who brought stories such as JFK?s assassination, America landing on the moon, and Watergate to millions of Americans, bought the four-story brownstone for $40,000, soon after moving to New York in the early 1950s. This was the home where Walter and wife, Mary ?Betsy? Cronkite, raised their three children. Walter died in 2009.
Born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, Walter dropped out of the University of Texas and, in 1936, began working as a sports announcer in Kansas City, later became one of America?s most important World War II reporters covering dangerous bombing raids over Germany and the Battle of the Bulge. In 1950, he went to New York City where he took over the CBS Evening News in 1963 – just a few weeks before the JFK assassination.

Built in 1880, the Cronkites purchased their New York home soon after he moved his family to the city. According to the current owner in an interview with the New York Post, Cronkite had a hard time finding a place to live and purchased the home for $40,000 – with squatters in residence. The Cronkites turned the ho...