Neighbors felt cut down Caption: "Neighbors felt cut down--Argyle Road residents were stunned when workmen \[in foreground] yesterday cut down four huge shade trees alongside site of addition to Public School 139 \[located at 330 Rugby Road] at corner of Cortelyou Road. They insist city promised a year ago the trees would remain. One, a consulting engineer, figured cost of removal at $800. 'A ridiculous waste of taxpayers money and a handsome, tree-lined street is ruined in the bargain,' he said;" several wood-frame private houses in background.

Shops outside the Newkirk Plaza Station on the BMT Brighton Line, September 16, 1962.

"No. 1402 Ditmas Avenue (at southeast corner of Rugby Road and Ditmas Avenue), 1958." This corner home sits outside of the nearby Ditmas Park Historic District but features many of the same details as the homes within the district: large Queen Anne style home, deep porches, and turrets.

"539 (535) E. 19th Street, east side, south of Dorchester Road, showing the home of J. Frazee. H. Grattern was the builder."

This view of of Public School 139 is the side view from Cortelyou Road. The school opened in September of 1903 and served a student population of 898. Less than five years later the school had 1684 pupils and a was very well considered, both for student achievement and teacher reputation. The school had ample greenspace with a front lawn and a large playground in the rear.

403 East 19th Street, August 7, 1962. This two-story Colonial Revival home was constructed in in 1909-1910 by Benjamin Driesler for William H. Silk. The large curved porch is an iconic feature of the 1981- landmark designated Ditmas Park Historic District. Today the porch and the home is obscured by large trees.

This large Colonial Revival building was constructed in 1899 as the home for Thomas Brush, a Brooklyn builder. The architects were a Connecticut architectural firm of brothers George and Charles Palliser. They designed this home to compliment the one at 1000 Ocean Avenue next door, the home of Thomas Brush's son-in-law. The home was so lauded when built that it was written up in the magazine Scientific American, which detailed the sculptures by famed Boston sculptor Charles Emmel and the silver plated exposed pipes in the bathrooms. The original owner lost the home in 1913 when it when into foreclosure, and then it went through a series of owners until 1929 when it was bought by a Jewish congregation. Temple Beth Ohr owned and used the building until the mid 1990s when it was sold again, this time to a Pentecostal church. During their ownership the building deteriorated greatly. But since 2008 it has been restored and it houses a number of doctors offices.