Flashback Friday: Images From 1940s Fort Greene And Clinton Hill

Heather Chin -
Contributed by: Steven Romalewski, CUNY Center for Urban Research (Image via .

Every 10 years, the United States conducts a census of people, places and other measurable markers of life in the country. Back in 1940, this was no different, except that in the aftermath, in 1943, four newspapers — the New York Times, News Syndicate Co., Daily Mirror, and Hearst Corporation — decided to publish a collection of neighborhood profiles, called the New York City Market Analysis.

These snapshots are a part of the profile for “Fort Greene Park,” which covered what is now Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

In addition to this collage, there were also statistics and maps, now documented online by the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center on a website called 1940sNewYork.com.