Al Capone's Park Slope Childhood Home For Sale: Report

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Notorious gangster Al Capone's childhood home in Park Slope is up for sale, according to a report.

And for $2.9 million, noted Capone property enthusiast Geraldo Rivera or — more likely — someone else can scoop up the 21 Garfield Place townhouse, the New York Post first reported.

Capone is perhaps most remembered for his Prohibition-era dominance of Chicago gangs, but he originally hailed from New York City.

He lived in the Park Slope townhouse until he was a teenager, according to the Post.

The property sits just a few blocks from the Park Slope Coop and can easily be forgotten. But it occasionally pops up in news stories, usually when a sale looms.

Brownstoner reported the building is one of many wood-framed homes that once lined the block, although its exterior has since been altered. It was the Capone family's third home on Garfield Place, Brownstoner reported.

Patch searched online City Department of Building records to see if the building has a space similar to the "vault" featured on his infamous 1986 special "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults."

For those not well-versed in Geraldo lore, the special was a massively hyped and much-watched two hour special in which Rivera cracked open a sealed Capone "vault" — speculated to hold money or dead bodies inside — only to find it was empty.

The Park Slope home doesn't appear to have anything close to a vault, at least based off Patch's review.

Sorry, Geraldo.