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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.
St. Mark's Congregational Church
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St. Mark's Congregational Church, October 24, 1940. In 1897 the newly founded Immanuel Congregational created through the merger of Rochester Avenue and Patchen Avenue Congregational churches. The new community commissioned Brooklyn architect Axel Hedman to construct a new building. Completed in 1898 the Renaissance Revival structure more resembled one of Hedman's apartment designs and less like a classic church style. The broad, largely flat front of the church showcases wide stained glass windows. Briefly St. Mark’s Congregational Church (captured here in 1940), the church became the United Baptist Church in 1945, which it remains today.
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.
St. Matthew Glorious United Church of God
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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.).
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.
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.
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
Public School No. 137, Saratoga Avenue and Bainbridge Street.
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
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
666 Macon Street
Kings County Republican Club Exterior view of the Kings County Republican Club located at 666 Macon Street. The image is not dated.
Pauli Murray’s former home
Pauli Murray’s former home
Halsey Theater
Halsey Theatre Architectural rendering of Halsey Theatre, located at 928 Halsey Street, which opened in 1926 and closed in 1945.
St. Mark's Congregational Church
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.
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.
Brevoort Houses
Architectural rendering of housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant. (1953, Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History)
Brevoort Houses
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