Feast Your Eyes On These Vintage Photos Of Emmons Avenue In The Early 20th Century

Sheepshead looked more like a New England fishing village than Brooklyn. Then again, so did a good deal of the borough’s neighborhoods (although few to this bungalow-abounding extreme).

Here are a few black and white photos to take you back to the early 20th century, to a time when Brooklyn was more of a bustling town than the metropolis it is today.

Emmons Avenue opposite Coyle Street, showing Beau Rivage, “owned by Gulotti and Vannini in 1922 and by W.E. Morson and Popper in 1925,” in 1923. (Photo via Eugene L. Armbruster Collection courtesy NYPL)

Emmons Avenue between Haring Street and Nostrand Avenue, “showing Ewen Olson’s boat Yard. This place adjoins No. 3038 on the west,” 1933. (Photo via NYPL)

3127-29 Emmons Avenue, north side, between Ford and Coyle Streets, 1933. “Houses concerned are framed.” (Photo by P.L. Sperr via NYPL)

Emmons Avenue and East 15th Street, 1935. “The view in the foreground has changed. All shacks were confiscated by the City of New York.” (Photo by Percy Loomis Spencer via NYPL)

Emmons Avenue between Sheepshead Bay Road and East 19th Street, 1935. “In the right background is the New Lundy Restaurant, erected in 1934.” (Photo by P.L. Sperr via NYPL)

2253 to 2269 Emmons Avenue, from Dooley Street to East 23rd Street, 1933. (Photo by P.L. Sperr via NYPL)

2253 to 2269 Emmons Avenue from Dooley Street to East 23rd Street, 1937. The view shows “how this tranquil residential area has changed into a commercial district.”

Emmons Avenue between East 29th Street and Nostrand Avenue, 1940. “Shown is a row of bungalows, which appear on Hyde’s 1929 map as Nos. 1 to 15 Cantor Avenue, the latter evidently being the stretch of low land in front of the dwellings. (Photo by L. Sperr. Photo via NYPL)

Emmons Avenue and East 15th Street, 1941. (Photo by Percy Loomis Spencer via NYPL