Howard Stern’s parents’ home marked landmark designation

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Through Mary K. Jacob

May 16, 2023 | 5:43 p.m

The longtime Brooklyn home of Howard Stern’s parents was given landmark designation by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission two years before his father died, The Post has learned.

In 1996, Stern bought this 3,100-square-foot property for his parents, Ray and Ben Stern, near Borough Park for $280,000.

Ben died at the age of 95 last year.

The neighborhood in which the house stands was first designated historic in 2007.

On October 16, 2007, the commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District because of its established architecture that accommodated New York’s expanding middle class in the early 1900s.

In particular, the house is described as part of “a rare” example of Tudor Revival-style architecture there.

The house was built in 1915 by renowned architect Alexander Mackintosh, who was also behind the design of the Empire Building at 71 Broadway.

Mackintosh opened his own office in New York in 1900, and designed numerous clubhouses, banks, office buildings and residences throughout the eastern United States — particularly in New Jersey, where he lived in his later years.

This Brooklyn house, which has not been altered much, remains intact. Now you can see it painted blue.

In October 2020, the house was specifically voted back by the commission as a landmark designation.

But it’s unclear why the house was specifically marked with a sign the second time — and whether the younger Stern’s connection to it had anything to do with it.

The Post reached out for comment.

Stern’s mother, Ray, 95, continues to live there, but sources say she is struggling with the loss of her husband, to whom she was married for more than 75 years.

The property deed remains in their son’s name.

In September 2022, Stern returned to his SiriusXM morning show after a summer off the air to announce the death of his father.

“My dad, as it turned out, had prostate cancer and it had metastasized to his bones,” the shock jock revealed, recalling his father’s love for “fountain pens” and “his desk .”

Stern also mentions his father’s “secret” eyeglasses, a “handicap” about which Ben is determinedly private.

“You didn’t ask my dad anything,” Stern said. “He could explode.”

“I’m sad about it, I am,” said the continued death of his father. “My family is very different. I give you glances and I always joke about it. But I remember going to my mom and saying to her, ‘Mom, I think you should visit dad in hospice — he’s dying.’ He was like, ‘No, no, I’m not going.’ He doesn’t want to go. I said, ‘You’re going to regret this. you should go Do it for me.’ He still hasn’t moved on from that.”

Later, Stern’s daughter, Ashley, a nurse practitioner, convinced her grandmother to come.

“My mother got dressed, she went to see my father, spent an hour at the hospice. A few hours later, my father was dead.”