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Halsey Theater image

Halsey Theater
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Halsey Theater, built in 1912. This movie house showed vaudeville and silent movies. The theater was closed in 1943 and turned over to house a manufacturing business. It was demolished in 1967.
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Public School 137
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Public School 137 Brooklyn, ca. 1900. This C.B.J Snyder-built school was completed circa 1905. Today it still stands and is named for Rachel Jean Mitchell, a local mother, President of the Community School Board for District 23, and advocate for PTAs in all of Brooklyn District 23 schools.
514 Chauncey Street image

514 Chauncey Street
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My Archive Spring 2019 "My mother's mother called Nannie." —Gerard Sea
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Empire State of Hunger
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Hunger is not only a big issue around the world, but also inNew York City. We see people struggling with food insecurity all around our neighborhoods. After the Bronx, Brooklyn has the second highest rate of food insecurity of almost 16 % (Emergency Food in NYC, 2023). How are communities addressing hunger in Brooklyn? In New York City over 2 million individuals face hunger (Hunger in New York, 2023), and over 600 hundred thousand of them are children. Since the average cost of a meal in NYC is almost $4, this means we would need over $1.5 billion to address their food needs. What is striking is that food insecurity has increased by more than 30 %for people in New York who are 65 years and older. However those who face the most hunger overall are households with children. Food insecurity impacted the African American and Hispanic populations at over twice the rate (Nearly 1 in 10 NYers Were Food Insufficient in 2022:Study, 2023). The three sites featured here are programs in Brooklyn dedicated to helping individuals with food insecurity. This includes “The Campaign Against Hunger”, “Bay Ridge Community Development Center” and “Institute for Community Equity and Sharing, INC.” Hunger in New York. Feeding America. (n.d.-b). https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/new-york Staff, N. N. Y. (2023a, May 27). Nearly 1 in 10 Nyers were food insufficient in 2022: Study. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nearly-1-in-10-nyers-were-food-insufficient-in-2022-study/4251419/ Emergency food in NYC. Data Team. (n.d.). https://council.nyc.gov/data/emergency-food-in-nyc/
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St. Matthew Glorious United Church of God
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Public School 137 image

Public School 137

Brooklyn: Saratoga Avenue - Chauncey Street Saratoga Avenue, east side, from Chauncey to Bainbridge Street, showing Public School No. 137. Board of Education of the City of New York June 25, 1931
Public School 137 image

Public School 137

Public School No. 137, Saratoga Avenue and Bainbridge Street.
Public School 137 image

Public School 137

P.S. 137 Facade of PS 137, a large, four-story, masonry building located at 121 Saratoga Avenue, with several pedestrians, two utility poles, street signs, and street lamp in foreground.
Public School 137 image

Public School 137

Public School 137 image

Public School 137

PS 137 Facade of PS 137, a large, four-story, masonry building located at 121 Saratoga Avenue, with portions of other buildings on both sides, group of school children standing in front of side entrance, and several other children, two utility poles, horse-drawn wagon, and intersecting streets in foreground.
Pauli Murray’s former home image

Pauli Murray’s former home

Pauli Murray’s former home

Pauli Murray’s former home

103 Saratoga Avenue image

103 Saratoga Avenue

Brooklyn: Saratoga Avenue - Decatur Street 103-121 Saratoga Ave., east side, between Decatur and Bainbridge Streets. April 20, 1936. P. L. Sperr.
180 Saratoga Avenue image

180 Saratoga Avenue

Brooklyn: Sumpter Street - Saratoga Avenue Sumpter Street, at, adjoining and west of the S.W. corner of Saratoga Ave. At the laft of the Hebrew Educational Center, is a 4-story frame houee, No. 180 Saratoga Ave. April 29, 1936. P. L. Sperr.
656 MacDonough Street image

656 MacDonough Street

Cleaning up job Woman holds, and Black man attaches, sign ("A clean block is a good block") to iron fence; tools on pavement in foreground; row of apartment houses in left background; large tree in right background. Caption: "Cleaning up job--Homer Johnston, 706 MacDonough \[sic] St. fastens sign of civic pride to fence in front of 656 MacDonough St. with assist from Mrs. Louis Ruggiero, a resident of latter address. He's president and she is assistant secretary of the 600 MacDonough Association, which is promoting the clean-up campaign." (Street name is really McDonough Street.).
Halsey Theater image

Halsey Theater

Halsey Theatre Architectural rendering of Halsey Theatre, located at 928 Halsey Street, which opened in 1926 and closed in 1945.
805 MacDonough Street image

805 MacDonough Street

New station Caption: "New station--Postmaster Quigley, right, opens the new Halsey Station of the post office at 905 MacDonough St. with him is J. M. O'Brien, Assistant Postmaster." Image includes two other unidentified men standing in far left.
Halsey Street Station, BMT Jamaica Line image

Halsey Street Station, BMT Jamaica Line

\[Halsey Street Station: BMT Jamaica Line] Center of the eastbound platform of the Halsey Street station on the BMT Jamaica Line, Brooklyn, NY.
Saratoga Avenue Station, Fulton Street El image

Saratoga Avenue Station, Fulton Street El

Fulton Street El, Brooklyn, at Saratoga Avenue, May 27-28, 1941. View looking east.
Saratoga Avenue Station, Fulton Street El image

Saratoga Avenue Station, Fulton Street El

Fulton Street El, Brooklyn, at Saratoga Avenue, May 27-28, 1941. View looking west.
1981 Fulton Street image

1981 Fulton Street

Fulton Street El, Brooklyn, between Rockaway and Saratoga Avenues, November 7, 1941.
1981 Fulton Street image

1981 Fulton Street

Fulton Street El, Brooklyn, between Rockaway and Saratoga Avenues, November 7, 1941.
2010 FULTON STREET image

2010 FULTON STREET

2009 Fulton Street image

2009 Fulton Street

Looking West at Roadway Conditions Along Fulton Street: IND Fulton Line One in a series of survey photographs documenting roadway conditions along Fulton Street, located in Brooklyn, N.Y. Image used in preparation for construction of the Independent Subway (IND) Fulton Line. Photograph shows excavation equipment including spoil buckets on sidewalk, billboard posters for camel cigarettes, shell service station, and lowe's theater, horse cart, street, trolley tracks, and partial view of BMT Fulton Street Elevated Line structure above roadway. Original photographic logbook reads: Camera set on outside track looking West on street surface at 184+00, South track.
514 Chauncey Street image

514 Chauncey Street

Chauncey Street , Broadway My Mothers mother called Nannie
Lutheran Church of Our Saviour image

Lutheran Church of Our Saviour

\[Interior of Lutheran Church of Our Savior] Interior, Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 21 Covert Street, with many rows of pews, front door, balcony, stained glass windows, chandelier, globed lights hanging from ceiling, and portion of ceiling.
Lutheran Church of Our Saviour image

Lutheran Church of Our Saviour

\[Interior of Lutheran Church of Our Savior] Interior, Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 21 Covert Street, with many rows of pews, altar, pulpit and hymn sign in front, right, lectern and pipe organ in front, left, stained glass windows, chendelier, globed lights hanging from ceiling, and portion of ceiling.
Lutheran Church of Our Saviour image

Lutheran Church of Our Saviour

English Lutheran Church of Our Savior Facade and tower of Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 21 Covert Street, with two trees in foreground.
1986 Fulton Street image

1986 Fulton Street

Brooklyn: Fulton Street - Howard Avenue Brooklyn Fulton St. e. of Howard Ave. 5-12-42 P.L. Sperr
970 Decatur Street image

970 Decatur Street

Brooklyn: Decatur Street - Broadway St. -o-tk DECAW:BENE PE0R CNUAOA Rose Nnit Shop is at 966 3ecatur Photogra;her: P.L.Sperr Awg31941 Hdentfed by: P. Distenfeld Nieg Ae1ay YorestHills,N.Y. May 12,1968
1984 Fulton Street image

1984 Fulton Street

Looking West at Roadway Conditions Along Fulton Street and Howard Avenue: IND Fulton Line One in a series of survey photographs documenting roadway conditions along Fulton Street, located in Brooklyn, N.Y. Image used in preparation for construction of the Independent Subway (IND) Fulton Line. Photograph shows building storefronts, construction work and equipment, street, sidewalk, trolley tracks, and partial view of BMT Fulton Street Elevated Line structure above roadway. Looking West toward Howard Avenue. Original photographic logbook reads: Camera set on outside rail looking West on street surface at 171+00, South track.
1980 Fulton Street image

1980 Fulton Street

Brooklyn: Fulton Street - Howard Avenue P.L. Sperr, photographer 5-12-1942
1980 Fulton Street image

1980 Fulton Street

Brooklyn: Fulton Street - Howard Avenue Fulton Street, south side, east of a point west of Howard Ave., showing in the foreground, a church (no denomination) designated as the Church of Jesus Light of the World, at 1980 Fulton Street. April 20, 1936. P. L. Sperr.
988 Decatur Street image

988 Decatur Street

Decatur St Section of Decatur street with residential buildings on both sides, one retail store on right, fire hydrant in right foreground, several parked automobiles, and tree and several pedestrians in left background.
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