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8525 Shore Road
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"Shore Road, east side, north of 86th Street, showing No. 8391 at the right, 1928" The address numbers on Shore Road were reorganized at some point in the 20th century , as this house seen in this photograph is now listed as no. 8525.
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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
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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.
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42 87th Street
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"42-87th Street, south side, east of Narrows Avenue, showing the home of May Drunas in 1925."
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96 85th St
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Handball
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Over the years, as I’ve photographed the city, I’ve amassed a collection of loose typologies—those omnipresent features like storefront churches, split houses, and dead ends that create a throughline across the different neighborhoods and boroughs of New York. One of the first subjects I began to document somewhat systematically was handball walls. These large concrete monoliths, pockmarked, peeling, and painted-over slabs, preside over playgrounds like oversized Rorschach tests. A standard wall is 16’ by 20’, mirroring the proportions of the 8x10 camera I was working with. They are everywhere.

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8911 Shore Court

8911 Shore Court
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8915 Shore Court
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8917 Shore Court
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8907 Shore Court
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70 89 Street

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70 89 Street

70 89 Street
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8903 Shore Court

8903 Shore Court
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74 89 Street
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8921 Shore Court
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8912 Shore Court
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25 Colonial Gardens

25 Colonial Gardens
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25 Colonial Gardens

25 Colonial Gardens
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44 89 Street
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8924 Shore Court

8924 Shore Court
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24 Colonial Gardens

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24 Colonial Gardens

24 Colonial Gardens
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42 89 Street

42 89 Street
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21 Colonial Gardens

21 Colonial Gardens
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84 89 Street

84 89 Street
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9000 Shore Road

9000 Shore Road
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22 Colonial Gardens

22 Colonial Gardens
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19 Colonial Gardens

19 Colonial Gardens
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Shore Road Park

The park (Shore Road Park?) that was down the hill from my grandparent's appartment on Shore Drive in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn not far from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. 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 appartment 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 sand boxes, 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 todays 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.
Shore Road Park image

Shore Road Park

Sandhogs in front of tunnel boring machine (TBM) cutter head after it completed tunneling for the Staten Island Siphon to Brooklyn, March 26, 2015. The new 72-inch siphon was excavated at a depth of 100 feet and replaced the old original Narrows Siphons 1 and 2. It serves as the backup water feed for Staten Island. Photo by DEP Photographer Kristen Artz.
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65 89 Street

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61 89 Street
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67 89 Street
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57 89 Street
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18 Colonial Gardens

18 Colonial Gardens
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