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Union Church of Bay Ridge
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Union Church of Bay Ridge, June 23, 1963. The Union Church of Bay Ridge was established in 1918, following the merger of two Ridge Boulevard Churches, the Bay Ridge Reformed Church (which occupied the Union Church’s current site) and Bay Ridge United Presbyterian. The current church was completed in 1931.

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.

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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Kallman Home for Children

Happy to be off Caption: "Happy to be off--Youngsters of the Kallman Home for Children, 8515 Ridge Boulevard, leave home for month's vacation at Camp Joy and Camp Whitaker, Carmel, N.Y."

Kallman Home for Children

Kallman Home for Children Image represented is one of a related set (SWEL 0536, SWEL 0537, SWEL 0535), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four exterior views of Kallman Home for Children located at Ridge Boulevard and 86th Street. 0543 is an architectural rendering.

Kallman Home for Children

Kallman Orphanage Exterior view of Kallman Home for Children located on 18th Avenue and 67th Street. The image is not dated.

Kallman Home for Children

Sweden's representatives in boro Caption: "Sweden's representatives in boro--High-ranking representatives of the Swedish government help Brooklyn's Swedish colony celebrate 55th anniversary of the Kallman Home for Children founded in 1897 by a Swedish immigrant. Left to right are Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Osten Unden; Clarence LeG. Sogren, dinner chairman; George P. Johansen, toastmaster; former Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander; Mrs. Ula Lindstrom, Swedish delegate to the UN; Swedish Consul General Lennart Nylander, and Andrew G. Clausen, Jr., president of the Board of Education."

Kallman Home for Children

Kallman Home for Children Caption: "There were a lot of happy kids at the Kallman Home, Ridge Boulevard and 85th St. when Fred Meyn, chairman of the 40-8 welfare committee, American Legion, and Mrs. Jeannette Lally of the Legion's child welfare committee paid them a visit and presented a blouse to each girl and a sports shirt to each boy."

Kallman Home for Children

Kallman Home for Children Image represented is one of a related set (SWEL 0536, SWEL 0537, SWEL 0535), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four exterior views of Kallman Home for Children located at Ridge Boulevard and 86th Street. 0543 is an architectural rendering.

Kallman Home for Children

Kallman Home for Children Image represented is one of a related set (SWEL 0536, SWEL 0537, SWEL 0535), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four exterior views of Kallman Home for Children located at Ridge Boulevard and 86th Street. 0543 is an architectural rendering.

Kallman Home for Children

8515 Ridge Boulevard

Kallman Home for Children

Kallman Home for Children Image represented is one of a related set (SWEL 0536, SWEL 0537, SWEL 0535), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four exterior views of Kallman Home for Children located at Ridge Boulevard and 86th Street. 0543 is an architectural rendering.

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Public School 185

Christmas in the air Caption: "Christmas in the air--Huge suspended wall mural (45 by 20 feet) lines most of one side of gymnasium in P.S. 185, Ridge Blvd. and 86th St. It was executed by Mrs. Arthur Grenard on ladder, for party given by Mothers-Teachers Association. Other mothers are Mrs. Chester Wethe, Mrs. Seneca L. McGraw, and Mrs. Michael Jangie, left to right. In the same order, children in party togs are Barbara Kahn 7, Susan Stover, 7 1/2, Bari Marlana Grenard, 7 1/2, Lorraine Coyle, 6 1/2 and Robert Persiko, 7 1/2, all second graders."

Public School 185

8601 Ridge Boulevard

Public School 185

Brooklyn: Ridge Boulevard - 86th Street Ridge Boulevard, east side, from 86th to 87th Streets, showing Public School No. 185. Board of Education of the City of New York early 1930's

Public School 185

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