Public School 76, ca. 1930.

Public School 76 was constructed in 1888 and originally known as the Wynona School before being given the designation as P.S. 76. The primary or elementary school was built with high ceilings and tall windows because, like many of the buildings constructed at the same time, it had no electricity for lights. Electric lights would only be installed in 1925. The school closed in 1979 and the building was damaged by a fire in the early 1980s. For many years it was a neighborhood eyesore and a venue for illicit activities. A local retiree and community board member named George Walker Jr. was a tireless advocate for the community and particularly for the safe and productive reuse of the school site on Wynona Street. After a long process the school building was eventually demolished in 1996 and a park was created and named after Walker who passed away in 1992.

The building on the far right of this 1922 photograph is the Tyrian Temple. Built between 1905 and 1907, it was the home of Tyrian Lodge #618, an organization of Free Mason. The lodge was established in 1867 and originally met in some rooms on Atlantic Avenue. This sect of the fraternal organization had over 400 members by 1900 and as such this more substantial building was constructed as their headquarters. Pennsylvania Avenue was one of the major thoroughfares in this neighborhood at the turn of the 20th century. It was lined with large, fine homes as well as important civic and social institutions, such as police stations, post offices, banks, and social clubs. The membership of this particular social club was a well-heeled group of doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and real estate developers. The building remained the social club until at least the 1940s, and it maybe have been used as a factory at some point after that. In 1971 the surviving #618 trustees sold the building to the Prince Hall Masons, an African-American Masonic body, which certainly reflected the demographic shift in the neighborhood. Though it still bares the name of that Masonic group, it has been owned by another organization and used as a community center since 2012.

My Archive Summer 2019 “This is an eastbound J train of the Brooklyn Broadway/Jamaica Avenue EL entering the Van Siclen Avenue Station above Fulton Street in a photo taken by me in August of 1984. This section of the EL was opened in December 1885 and served as the eastern terminus of Brooklyn's first elevated line, the Lexington Avenue EL (which opened in 1885) and the Brooklyn Broadway EL (which opened in 1888) until 1893 when the line was extended to the then Brooklyn City/Queens County border at Cypress Hills; directly across the street from Cypress Hills Cemetery. This is the oldest stretch of unreconstructed elevated railroad structure still in use in the world.” —Eric Smith

New Lots Town Hall ca. 1922 This structure stands as a rare remnant of the town of New Lots. In 1873, the newly established and growing town authorized a $10,000 bond for the construction of a town hall. Opening in December of that year, this building included office space, rooms for public assembly and a fire department. Later, space was made for a police force and jail cells, as well. After New Lots became the 26th Ward of the City of Brooklyn in 1886, a town hall was no longer necessary and the building became the 71st police precinct until 1892, when a larger police station was built at 484 Liberty Avenue (site 4). In 1899, the building became the 26th Ward Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, later the Bradford Hospital, until it closed in 1934. Eventually, the building was converted into a multifamily residence. Today, while its large windows have unfortunately been shrunk, their lintels and sills remain as a memory of the original openings. The building also retains its cornice and 1930s entrance porch

Fire at the St. Malachy Parochial School at Atlantic Avenue and Hendrix Street, January 8, 1929. According to a Brooklyn Daily Eagle report bearing the headline "Nun, Clothing Aflame, Saves 213 Children as Parochial School Burns," the fire was attributed to a faulty flue. Sister St. Clare's robes caught fire as she sounded the first alarm, then led the successful evacuation of St. Malachy's pupils. The school building was unsalvageable and razed shortly thereafter.