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Firefighters battle a blaze at a partially completed apartment building on 91st Street between Third and Fourth Avenues, June 1929. The New York Times reported that "a great crowd watched the apartment house fire" on 91st Street. The apartment building was unoccupied when fire was first spotted by a police officer, late in the afternoon of June 2. However, high winds caused the blaze to spread: "Sparks swept on a stiff wind ignited a garage across the street and started roof fires, all trifling, in three frame dwellings in the vicinity. Embers were carried a quarter of a mile to the Army reservation at Fort Hamilton. A one-story warehouse of the Quartermaster Corps took fire and was burned." While firefighters fought the spread of flames, a 91st Street resident prevailed in gaining access to her imperiled home in order to recover certain valuables: "The police ordered the Seatti family to stay out of the house. Mrs. Robert Brandon, however, a tenant, insisted that valuable securities must be rescued. Firemen finally accompanied Mrs. Brandon to her quarters and she came out with the securities. They consisted of $10 and two strawberry shortcakes she had made for her son's birthday party."
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Roman Catholic Church of St. Patrick and the associated parish school, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; June 16, 1963.
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Fort Hamilton Branch, BPL ca. 1939 9424 4th Avenue Designed by Lord & Hewlett, 1906 The Fort Hamilton Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library began as a small book collection donated by Mrs. Gelston of Shore Road in the 1890s. Thanks to a gift from steel magnate Andrew Carnegie in 1901, the library was expanded and this modest the building was constructed. Recently restored, the building is clad in red brick with horizontal black brick courses and features a dentilled cornice and limestone window sills and doorway surrounds.
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541 92 Street
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533 92 Street
9054 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9054 Fort Hamilton Parkway
153-55 Gelston Avenue
153-55 Gelston Avenue
9052 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9052 Fort Hamilton Parkway
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9060 Fort Hamilton Parkway
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9050 Fort Hamilton Parkway
141 Gelston Avenue
141 Gelston Avenue
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544 92 Street
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550 92 Street
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159-67 Gelston Avenue
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135 Gelston Avenue
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552 92 Street
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133 Gelston Avenue
9202 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9202 Fort Hamilton Parkway
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9208 Fort Hamilton Parkway
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131 Gelston Avenue
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129 Gelston Avenue
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528 92 Street
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9030 Fort Hamilton Parkway
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171 Gelston Avenue
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9210 Fort Hamilton Parkway
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127 Gelston Avenue
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526 92 Street
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9026 Fort Hamilton Parkway
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524 92 Street
9055 Fort Hamilton Parkway
Brooklyn: Fort Hamilton - 92nd Street Fort Hamilton Parkway, at the N.E. corner of 92nd Street, showing an old frame building, once used as a road house. To the left is partly seen Harold Hall, a 6-story apartment house. Cctober 1928. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
522 92 Street
522 92 Street
9053 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9053 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9024 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9024 Fort Hamilton Parkway
123 Gelston Avenue
123 Gelston Avenue
9220 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9220 Fort Hamilton Parkway
520A 92 Street
520A 92 Street
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179 Gelston Avenue
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520 92 Street
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119 Gelston Avenue
9022 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9022 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9224 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9224 Fort Hamilton Parkway
Public School 104
PS 104 Facade of PS 104, a large, four-story, brick building located at 9115 5th Avenue, with iron fence along front and side, four school children standing on sidewalk, adjacent buildings on both sides, and utility pole and intersecting streets in foreground.
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518 92 Street
172 Gelston Avenue
172 Gelston Avenue
9031-41 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9031-41 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9018 Fort Hamilton Parkway
9018 Fort Hamilton Parkway
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92 Street
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516 92 Street
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