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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.
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.
8220 Narrows Avenue
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The Gingerbread House, ca. 1939 The house that would become widely became known as "The Gingerbread House" was built in the early 1900s and designed by architect J. Sarsfield Kennedy. The home's distinctive Arts and Crafts style set it apart from many of the surrounding estates. Kennedy had designed the nearby boathouse of the prestigious Crescent Club. Perhaps it was the architect's design of that building that convinced Howard E. Jones, the wealthy president of the shipping firm James Ewell and Co, to commission him for a private home. Work on the Gingerbread House began in 1917. The house that sprung forth on the ample grounds purchased by Jones was made of natural material, its uncut stone and thatched roof evoking a fairy tale home in a European forest rather than a Bay Ridge estate. However, this rambling style wasn't the silly whim of the architect; the organic design is nuanced, adding order and subtle charm throughout the building. The Gingerbread House remains the most architecturally distinctive building in Bay Ridge.
42 87th Street
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"42-87th Street, south side, east of Narrows Avenue, showing the home of May Drunas in 1925."
Crescent Athletic Club
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"Shore Road, west side, opposite 83rd Street, showing the Crescent Athletic Club's boat-house, which was destroyed by fire in April 1933. This organization has its origin in a football club, organized in 1884 by William H. Ford, and was on leased grounds located at the corner of 9th Ave and 9th Street, Brooklyn. The club which was incorporated in Feb. 1888, took over in the spring of 1889 the land and boat-house of the Nereid Boat Club. In the same year they purchased from the Van Brunt and Bergen estates of Bay Ridge a tract of land extending from 83rd to 85th Streets, and from Shore Road to Colonial Road. On Decoration Day 1892, the club house which cost $80,000 was opened to the members, 1922."
96 85th St
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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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8220 Colonial Road
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Fort Hamilton High School
Fort Hamilton playground under construction Caption: "New Fort Hamilton playground under construction--In the foreground is shown the new Fort Hamilton playground, 83d to 85th Sts. and Colonial Road, which is being constructed by the WPA and the Park Department. ... In the background may be seen the steel framework of the Fort Hamilton High School now being erected \[at 8301 Shore Road]. Both the playground and the high school are on the site of the grounds formerly occupied by the Crescent Athletic Club."
Fort Hamilton High School
Fort Hamilton High School Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0895, SCHL 0896, SCHL 0897, SCHL 0893, SCHL 0900), some of which may also be described in this new record; Six images of Fort Hamilton High School located at 8301 Shore Road. 0895 is an architectural rendering.
Fort Hamilton High School
Ft. Hamilton High School Community Centre "The Ft. Hamilton High School Community Centre, Shore Rd. and 83rd St., Brooklyn, conducts a course in Arts and Crafts ... Mr. Harry Flaster, teacher of shop work in the day school, conducts the course ..." Caption is signed, "Arthur Peck, Principal." Group, mostly young men, are pictured in workshop. The school is located at 8301 Shore Road.
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