Lefferts Avenue, south side, east from New York Avenue, 1929. A trio of wood-frame homes, hidden under late 20th century siding, that unexpectedly remain.

George W. Wingate High School, 1965. George W. Wingate High School was built in 1956. The mid-century design of the school included this circular building attached to a long rectangular structure, giving it the look of a banjo from above. Notable graduates of the school include Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Senator Barbara Boxer, and rapper M.C. Lyte. The school closed in 2006. The building is now home to four smaller schools.

In 1926 Europe's famed "Hakoah" (meaning: the strength, in Hebrew) team arrived here from their hometown of Vienna to play local soccer superstars "The Brooklyn Wanderers" well, it was front page news in the Forward..

Although many have heard of Kings County Hospital, the huge medical center that sits right in the middle of Brooklyn between New York and Utica Avenues, few now remember the name of the Kingston Avenue Hospital, which occupied a site bounded by Kingston and Albany Avenues to the west and east, and Rutland Road and Winthrop Street to the north and south. And the reason we have heard of it here in the Brooklyn Collection is that a doctor by the name of Boris Schleifer photographed the hospital and some of its inmates and staff during the 1930s. The resultant collection of over a hundred images somehow made its way to Brooklyn Public Library--with every photograph of the creator removed except those in which he is too small to be recognized. This story appeared in its original format here.

Empire Boulevard, south side, west from Lamont Court to Brooklyn Ave, 1929. Though difficult to see in this faded photograph, all of the buildings visible here remain today. The three wood-frame single story homes seen mid block (the middle one is slightly more raised then the others) remain with new facades of brick or siding. The taller building in the middle and its neighbor to the west both still have what looks to be their original cornices.