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Bennet/Farrell/Feldmann House, ca. 1939. Built for Joseph S. Bennet, this house was one of three constructed in the 1840s for the Bennet family, who lived in the area since the mid 18th century. From 1890 to 1912, the house was occupied by James F. Farrell, a Tammany Hall politician and wool merchant. The structure was originally located on Shore Road but was moved to its present location when it was purchased by Francis C. Feldmann in 1913. The frame structure features a Tuscan-columned porch and green shutters. It is the oldest house in Bay Ridge and one of the oldest free-standing Greek Revival houses in Brooklyn.
Shore Road Park
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My Archive Spring 2019 "Me and my brother. I always loved visiting my grandparents in Brooklyn. It also meant exploring the most amazing city ever, crumb cake from Ebinger's bakery, limpa bread from the Swedish bakery, museums and shopping downtown, Coney Island, and the obligatory visit to Bay Ridge Methodist Church to check out my grandfather's gardening skills on the meticulously maintained grounds there. The playground down the hill from my grandparent's apartment was unlike anything I'd seen before. Like the city itself, the place was larger than life. Seemingly big enough for hundreds of kids to play at once, it had enormous sandboxes, impossibly tall slides, towering swings and the huge jungle gyms we're climbing in this picture. Reaching the top was quite an accomplishment, and insanely dangerous by today's standards of playground equipment, hence our triumphant poses. Taken by my father around 1963 and discovered in my father's boxes of old slides. The Verrazano-Narrows bridge was still under construction. Incredible memories will always be a huge part of my life long love of New York City." —Paul Carlson
Monastery of the Visitation
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VISITATION ACADEMY 8902 Ridge Boulevard, 1913 This private girls’ school was designed in the Italian neo-Renaissance style. The beige brick chapel features circular windows on its upper stories, triangular gables, a square tower with an arcaded belfry and decorative cruciform brickwork on its south façade. The entire complex is surrounded by a 20-foot stone and concrete wall. The site was previously home to the Kings County Inebriate Asylum and a natural glacier lake exists on the grounds.
The (Mostly Lost) Houses of Shore Road
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Once lined with grand homes complete with stunning waterfront vistas, today Shore Road is dense with apartment buildings constructed to support a booming Bay Ridge population in the 1940s. These are a few of those lost houses (and a couple that remain)!
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The 'Iron Horse' in miniature Caption: "The 'Iron Horse' in miniature--Two trains, an M-U train and an old-time passenger train with 10-wheeler steam locomotive, are halted on either side of the new suburban station of the Bay Ridge Model Railroad Club's layout. The club opens its annual exhibition this Friday at 28 Marine Ave."
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At the cab control Caption: "At the cab control--Operation of a train over the entire system is at the discretion of the man at the 'cab.' Here, Albert Solomon, left, of 131 Kensington St., an engineering student at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and Robert Anderson of 605 88th St., are shown in full control of East and Westbound trains on the mainline. ... Approximately 2,000 persons, including the model railroad 'bugs' from surrounding States, are expected to visit show before it closes on Nov. 2."
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It looks like the real thing It looks like the real thing--Beyond the three-track mainline ... in the foreground and the WYE section out of which a freight is moving, there's that entirely new ... section that club members are so proud of. This section has three new sidings in front of the main station--the nearest to the station being the Railway Express track, the center track for the coal yard, which has a coal trestle, and the lower track for the lumber yard. In the background, the uncompleted city and the distant hills and countryside."
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He's learning fast Young man working on model railroad. Caption: "He's learning fast--Vincent DiCarlo, 18, who happens to live in the apartment house where the model railroad is built ... shown adjusting the turntable in front of the roundhouse."
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All done by hand Man wearing cap working on model railroad. Caption: "All done by hand--...George Schmidt of 530 74th St., a Wall St. clerk, installs new switch work on the new engine track. ...The odd-shaped building at Schmidt's right hand is the railroad's 'feed bag' -- a coal tipple used for loading locomotive tenders with coal. At left, the round house where locomotives are stored and repaired. Tracks lead up to its door from the newly installed but still trackless turntable. Behind the roundhouse is a portion of a hillside town."
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Controlling the flow of traffic Caption: "Controlling the flow of traffic--The Bay Ridge Model Railroad \[Club] has a signal system based on that used by the New York Central Railroad. ... Robert O. Kretzschmar of 8300 4th Ave., ... operates the signal system, premitting a freight to move safely through the switches. A diesel engine heads out of the tunnel and, at right, a passenger train rounds the bend, approaching a signal bridge on the mainline."
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