Arlington Branch, January 18, 1959. Completed in 1906 to the designs of Richard A. Walker of architectural firm of Walker & Morris, the Arlington Branch is typical of the suburban model of Carnegie Libraries. Originally called the East Branch, the two-story building is freestanding, within a larger lot surrounded by a lawn, and is symmetrical in layout with large windows. The library has one of the most well-preserved Carnegie Library interiors in the city. Original features include two graceful wooden staircases, oak trim,decorative mezzanine railings, and a fireplace surrounded by oak paneled reading nooks.

(Church: 1920-22, supporting buildings:1897-1956) St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church has served its community for over 150 years, during which time its campus grew to occupy almost the entire block between Atlantic and Liberty Avenues and Jerome and Warwick Streets. In 1860, a group of German immigrants received authorization from John Loughlin, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, for the construction of a Roman Catholic Church in New Lots. A wood frame structure was erected that same year, with Bishop Loughlin himself dedicating the site. Soon after, a school and rectory building was constructed next door. In 1897, a larger brick elementary school was constructed at the corner of Warwick Street and Liberty Avenue. The campus continued to expand with the enlargement of the rectory and the construction of more educational facilities on Warwick Street. By 1920, the growing parish was in need of a larger worship space, so a grand Romanesque Revival style church with an elegant bell tower was planned to take the old church’s place. The new church extended the width of the block to Warwick Street, where it also extended northward to accommodate a new monastery. In 1956, a high school was built at Jerome Street and Liberty Avenue. While the church originally served a German congregation, its demographics shifted over the years to serve Irish, Polish and Italians, and later African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Mexicans. Today, its congregation is predominately Spanish-speaking. In 2006, the church merged with St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church, a historically Irish parish in East New York, to form the new parish of St. Michael-St. Malachy.

P. S. 108, Sal Abbracciamento, Brooklyn Designed by James Naughton and built in 1895, P.S. 108 is located at 200 Linwood Street in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn. This distinctive Romanesque Revival brick and Lake Superior sandstone school building with prominent pavilions (atypical of this style of architecture), quoins, dormers and a paneled chimney was designated an historic landmark in 1981. Named in honor of Sal Abbracciamento, P.S 108 continues to serve the community as a public school.

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

St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church was originally built in 1860 on a plot of land that was bought for $500 by Jacob H. Sackman. The church has ran a school in the lot adjacent to it on Jerome Street since 1867.

Isaac Cornel Schenck Homestead, 1946. In 1771, Isaac Cornel Schenck's father Johannes purchased a farm in New Lots and ten years later gave it to his son. The farmland included a house of unknown age. Supposedly in 1791 while Isaac was expanding the home, he discovered musket and a rapier blade marked "1649" in the wall and cannon balls buried in its yard. The farm and farmhouse remained with Isaac Cornel's descendants through 1891 when it was sold to the city of Brooklyn and became part of the newly developed Highland Park. The Parks Department used the structure for park functions for some time. In 1945, Maud Esther Dillard in her book The Dutch Houses of Brooklyn wrote, "Now it stands vacant and desolate and will probably be torn down unless some responsible organization takes it under its wing and furnishes it as a museum." Still standing in 1951 when it was again captured for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the home was likely demolished soon after.