Exclusive | Jackie Robinsons Queens home where he resided during a World Series-winning season has listed for rent

A storied five-bedroom, two-bathroom colonial residence in Queens’ Addisleigh Park historic district, once home to baseball icon Jackie Robinson during his Brooklyn Dodgers glory days, is now up for rent asking $5,000 a month, The Post has learned.Spanning nearly 3,000 square feet, the dwelling at 112-40 177th St.in St.

Albans offers a rare chance to lease a piece of American sports and civil rights heritage — as it’s where Robinson lived when he clinched the Dodgers’ first World Series title in 1955.The move to St.Albans from Brooklyn in 1949 marked a new chapter for the Robinson family.

With Jackie Jr.nearing his third birthday and his wife, Rachel, expecting their second child, Sharon, the couple outgrew their Flatbush apartment on Tilden Avenue.Seeking more space, they traded proximity to Ebbets Field for a larger home in this stretch of Queens, joining a burgeoning enclave in Addisleigh Park.

This vibrant community, already a haven for black luminaries, had begun to flourish, despite its origins as a racially restricted suburb.St.Albans’ transformation traces back to its early days as a railroad suburb for white families fleeing urban density in the 1900s.

By the 1930s, restrictive covenants — private agreements embedded in property deeds — made for racial segregation in terms of home sales, a common practice across the Northeast.Though the Supreme Court had struck down state-enforced segregation in 1917, these covenants persisted, often required for FHA-backed mortgages.Change came in 1948 with Shelly v.

Kraemer, which deemed such restrictions unenforceable, cracking open the door for black families to settle in St.Albans.“There was a restrictive covenant on the deeds where homeowners were not allowed to sell to anyone outside of the white race,” said Nadine Morency-Mohs of Jaymore Realty LLC, the home’s listing agent.

“And there was a neighbor who was furious at one of his neighbors when he was moving and spitefully sold his home ...