Public School 84, 1931. Constructed in the last decade of the 19th century, with an additions added early in the 20th century, Public School 84 originally served the large Jewish population of Brownsville. In 1916 it was the location of the first district teachers council in the city, when faculty of more than 15 district school met to discuss their work and to present the Board of Education with issues and concerns. The school has had a number of well-known alumni, including Max Fleischer, a pioneer of animation and Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress (and to run for president).

Brownsville Branch, June 25, 1942. The Brownsville Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library was designed by Lord & Hewlett and completed in 1908. The Brownsville Library was one of the original independent libraries that constituted the core of the Brooklyn Public Library established in 1902. The two-story, five-bay, brick building has seen a number of renovations in its history including work completed following a fire in 1922.

Provident Loan Company, Brownsville Branch, ca. 1905. This simplified Beaux-Arts style structure was built in the first decade of the 20th century. Designed by architect, Arthur G. Stone, the building was erected to house the Jenkins Trust Bank. After that firm collapsed in the financial Panic of 1907 the branch was closed. In 1909 the building was sold to the Provident Loan Society, a non-profit loan firm that provided short-term cash loans, in direct competition to the shady loan sharks and pawn brokers of the day. The Loan Society moved out in the 1960s, after which the structure was occupied by various retail stores. At some point between the early 1980s and the 2007 the facade was reclad with marble tiles at the base and had a large concrete band installed over the tops of the large windows (some of which have also been bricked up). The Beaux-Arts ornamentation just under the roofline remain, as does the lovely tiled Mediterranean style roof.

1525 East New York Avenue, 1942.

The first decade of the 20th century the population of Brooklyn exploded, particularly in the neighborhood of Brownsville which saw a significant influx of Jewish immigrants from the overcrowded Lower East Side. The Williamsburg Bridge opened at the end of 1903, and between 1905 and 1912 the city established four new schools in Brownsville to attempt to meet the demand of the new school-aged population. Public School 125 predated the opening of the bridge by two years but was heavily renovated in 1917 to add educational and "activity" spaces. The overcrowding never truly abated even as the demographics of the neighborhood changed by the mid-century. By the 1950s the school was predominantly African American (the nearby Brownsville Houses opened in 1948) and was over capacity by 30%. Strangely, the closing date for the school is unknown. The building long stood but was left to ruins, creating a somewhat creepy scene on Rockaway Boulevard. Scaffolding has been erected since late 2017 and work underway. As of late 2018, the work seems completed, but it is unknown what the building's use will be.

1525 East New York Avenue, May 6, 1936. The business occupying this triangle plot is Brockman Monumental Works, a gravestone company run by members of the Yiddish-speaking, Jewish community that lived in Brownsville. Only a few blocks from this intersections, a number of Jewish cemeteries run along Jamaica Avenue including Beth-Olam, B'nal Jeshurum, and Machpelah Cemetery, where Harry Houdini is buried.