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Photo:Brooklyn Pix [http://brooklynpix.com/]Some things never change. Like that feeling of nostalgia you get while cruising 86th Street [/cruisin-86th-street-with-actor-filmmaker-william-demeo/#.VzYsEqODGko] under the el at Bay Parkway. Here, a taxi cab takes that well-treaded route sometime between the mid-1930s and the 1940s. This classic photo is available for
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Photo courtesy of Tony Giordano.Back in 1919, this corner was home to Kartevolo Jeweler and Goldensohn’s shop. Now, it’s a grocery store/bodega. But it’s still a commercial street full of small businesses serving Sunset Parkers! Image via Google Maps.
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Image courtesy of Tony Giordano.Happy Earth Day! Did you know that on this day, 46 years ago, Sunset Park resident and community advocate Tony Giordano, along with friends and neighbors, organized “the first Earth Day event in Sunset Park.” “We were the Street People Coalition and the grown-ups that
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How cool is this black-and-white video, of a ride along the El[evated] line from Manhattan into Brooklyn, past Fulton Street and then the 5th Avenue Bay Ridge line, through Sunset Park? Fast forward to the 8:20 mark in the video, as the train approaches Green-Wood Cemetery. There’s
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Courtesy of Green-Wood CemeteryWhile a visit to the 478 pastoral acres of Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/] provides a majestic and serene background to view architecture, sculpture, and an excellent lesson in city history, you’ll now have even greater access to millions of archival items dating back to
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1930s era Walt Whitman Library, then known as the City Park branch. (Photo via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.instagram.com/myrtleavebklyn].) The Walt Whitman Library branch has been serving our community and schoolkids for over a century — originally referred to as the City Park branch, until 1943 — and
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Photo via New York Public LibraryNeighbor Kevin L. Ferguson shared this photo from the NYPL collection [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-c148-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99] with us. It’s a photo of East 17th Street, north of Church Avenue, showing the W.P.A. sewer project on September 14, 1936. Share photos with
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Image via Brownstone Detectives via Brooklyn Historical Society [https://twitter.com/BrownstoneDetec/status/671791435021176832/photo/1].The Fort Greene Houses — now known as the Ingersoll and Walt Whitman Houses — were completed in 1944 and considered a pioneering development for urban renewal and addressing the housing crisis. Nowadays, of course, the
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Photo via Brownstone Detectives [https://twitter.com/BrownstoneDetec/status/658687411493425152/photo/1]We love this great image of Stratford Road posted by Brownstone Detectives [https://twitter.com/BrownstoneDetec] today. Does anybody have a guess as to what the cross street is? Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in
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Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Museum Collection [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/image/20601].Did you know that there used to be a major produce market in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, called the Wallabout Market, back in the turn of the century? It makes sense, since the Navy Yard was
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What was Flatbush Avenue like nearly a century and a half ago? What about Prospect Park? Church Avenue? Our neighborhood, and the city, have changed dramatically since the 19th century, and you can see how specific spots in our area have evolved since the 1870s and 1880s — when Brooklyn was
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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