Central Brooklyn
Flatbush Avenue at Snyder Avenue, 1932.Just a glimpse of the past can lift us out of our own tiny universes and plunk us right into another century, while never leaving our own street corner. At the end of a busy week, we had a lot of fun sifting through
history
Hotel Brighton hanging over the water before the pull. Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society. [http://brooklynhistory.pastperfectonline.com/advancedsearch?advanceSearchActivated=true&firstTimeSearch=true&page=3&search_include_archives=true&search_include_containers=true&search_include_creators=true&search_include_library=true&search_include_
history
2637, 2639 East 19th Street then and now. Historical Photo courtesy of Joseph Ditta.Sheepshead Bay used to be a vacationer’s destination for escaping the brutal city summer heat, according to a series of photos released by Joseph Ditta on Gravesend Gazette. [https://gravesendgazette.com/2016/07/17/summering-in-sheepshead-bay/
Arts & Culture
Image courtesy of Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/home.php].The Pratt Institute Library was erected in 1896 as the first public library in Brooklyn — as well as the only one for the next 15 years — and has since continued in its mission of providing educational materials to anyone,
emmanuel house
Image via Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sunday-school-thanksgivingcollection].The Thanksgiving holiday has long been an opportunity to teach children — and adults — how to share, and the importance of giving thanks the living in a community. This image is from 1910 and shows a Sunday School Thanksgiving collection from
historical photos
Image via Brooklyn Museum [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/image/20522].This lantern slide shows the ruins of the Central Presbyterian Church at Clinton and Greene Avenues after it was destroyed by fire in 1894. It was the third church built in Brooklyn by Dr. Thomas De Witt Talmage
clinton hill library
Wireless communication workers at Pratt Institute in 1900. (Image via Library of Congress [http://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000508/].)If there’s one thing that all Clinton Hill residents — new, old, and veterans alike — appreciate, it is the neighborhood’s rich history, seen in its architecture, stories, businesses, and the
brooklyn navy yard
Image via Library of Congress / World-Telegram photo by Al Ravenna [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99472801/].Have you ever seen such orderly picketing lines? These men were photographed “milling around [the] street across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard during an electrical workers strike” in 1941, according to the caption
historical photos
The recent dreary weather has us daydreaming about spring in Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org/] — the picnics, the lazing about, the dogs and children and frisbee tossing! To remind us all what’s just around the corner (we hope), we’ve gathered some great old photos from Brooklyn Visual
historical photos
Photo courtesy of Duke University Libraries [http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney_NY0202/].Noted photographer and local resident William Gedney took this photo some time between 1954 and 1959, according to the record [http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney_NY0202/] in the Duke University Libraries, which houses a number of