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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.
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Reichert’s Tea Room, ca. 1940. The Reichert’s Tea Room likely opened around 1931 and was a well-known hangout in the neighborhood. A 1931 ad for the shop stated: "Meet Me at Reichert’s’ has become such a familiar phrase among young people in Bay Ridge. It is hardly worth mentioning here. The point we like to make is this: If Reichert’s didn’t make the best ice cream sodas in town would they meet at Reichert’s?” The storefront became Hinsch's in 1949 and continued to serve ice cream and diner-esque foods through 2011. In recent years it has been converted into a Stewart’s (a fast-food restaurant franchise first established in 1924!)

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St. Anselm's R. C. Church Interior, St. Anselm's Church, 4th Avenue between 82nd and 83rd Streets: church service with many parishioners; main altar with many flowers, candles and angel statue on pedestal on each side; two side altars: left: four candelabras, four floral bouquets, two life-size statues; right: two candelabras, two candles, three floral bouquets, life-size statue and crucifix; four hanging light fixtures. Several men and women wearing military attire are standing in church front, some carrying large flags on poles.
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Saint Anselm's Church Facade and tower of St. Anselm's Church, 4th Avenue between 82nd and 83rd Streets, with street light and several parked automobiles in right foreground and many residential buildings in background.
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St. Anselm dedicated Four men, two wearing clerical attire, participate in cornerstone-laying ceremony; men in center holds trowel in right hand and book in left hand; man on right holds book with both hands. Caption: "St. Anselm dedicated--Archbishop Thomas E. Molloy applied mortar to cornerstone of new R. C. Church of St. Anselm, 4th Ave. and 82nd St., during dedication ceremonies yesterday. Assisting is the Rev. Leo A. Kelly, pastor of the church."
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Main altar, Shrine Church of St. Ann Interior, St. Ann's Church, Front Street and Gold Street: several rows of pews, elaborately decorated altar; two candelabras, eight candles in candlesticks, and cross on altar; life-size kneeling angel on pedestal on each side; reredos with three large paintings and life-size statue on each side; life-size statue and chandelier on far left, and priest standing in center.
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