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Alhambra Theatre
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Alhambra Theatre, May 1925. Opened as a vaudeville theatre in December of 1914, the Alhambra Theatre was designed by Arthur G. Carlson. Enlarged from 1,500 seats to 2,200 only four years after opening, the theatre presented movies in its later years. Redesigned by famed theatre architect Thomas Lamb in 1927, the building retained its prominent corner turret. The movie theatre closed in 1951 and later was used for a supermarket and day-care centre. Between 2015 and 2017, the building, which had long ago lost its lovely facade ornamentation, underwent a conversion into a 38-unit residential space.
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625 Wilson Avenue
\[Wilson Avenue and Decatur Street, Brooklyn, NY] Wilson Avenue Line trolley tracks at the intersection of Wilson Avenue and Decatur Street, Brooklyn, NY.
253 Moffat Street
Brooklyn: Moffat Street - Wilson Avenue Moffat Street, west side, between Wilson and Knickerbocker Aves. The brick building to the right of the frame house, is No. 253. January 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
840 Knickerbocker Avenue
Bushwick: 840 Knickerbocker Avenue, south side, remodelled, 1923.
Engine Co. #252
Brooklyn 100, Engine Co. \_252, 617 Central Ave; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
840 Knickerbocker Avenue
Brooklyn: Knickerbocker Avenue - Covert Street 834-844 Knickerbocker Ave., south side, between Covert and Schaeffer Streets. No. 840 is the remodeled frame house in the center of the view. March 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
149 Cooper Street
Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue 149-159 Cooper Street, at and north of Central Ave. The corner house (149), was at one time occupied by one Hatfield, who used it as a residence and also for the manufacture of "fire-works". It was later used as a saloon. March 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Colk ction.
Roman Catholic Church of the Fourteen Holy Martyrs
Brooklyn: Schaeffer Street - Central Avenue (1) Schaeffer Street, at the S.W. corner of Central Ave., showing the R.C. Church and rectory of the Fourteen Holy Martyrs. March 1925. Eugene L, Arubruster Cellection. (2) The same, another view. (This church was organized in 1887). March 1925. Eugene L Arabruster Cellectien.
672 Central Avenue
Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue (1) Cooper Street, at the S.E. corner of Central Ave., showing an old hotel razed in October 1925. (This property was once in the Van Voorhies family). 1922\. Eugene L. Armbruster Cellection. (2) The same, as seen from the opposite direction on Central Ave. January 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
811 Knickerbocker Avenue
809, 811, 815, and 817 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, undated (ca. May 1918).
809 Knickerbocker Avenue
809, 811, 815, and 817 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, undated (ca. May 1918).
Chauncey Street and Central Avenue
Real "sidewalk" cafe Fifteen or sixteen sanitation workers lounging on sidewalk; bushes and trees behind iron fence in background. Caption: "Real "sidewalk" cafe: Sanitation men of District 41, Ridgewood, are shown eating lunch on sidewalk at Chauncey St. and Central Ave. They have asked the Sanitation Department to provide transportation to district headquarters or to other points where there are restaurant and washroom facilities."
Alhambra Theatre
Bushwick: Alhambra Theatre, 783 Knickerbocker Avenue, undated.
Alhambra Theatre
Alhambra Theatre Architectural rendering of the Alhambra Theatre located at 783 Knickerbocker Avenue. It opened, presumably, as a vaudeville theater around the turn of the century; it closed in the 1940's.
Alhambra Theatre
1155 Halsey Street
Brooklyn: Halsey Street - Wilson Avenue (1) Halsey Street, west side, south of Wilson Ave., showing the Halsey Street Presbyterian Church, which was formerly known as the German Evangelist Church. September 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Cellection. (2) The same, showing a closer view of the church from the opposite direction. September 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
11-01 Irving Avenue
Queens: Irving Avenue - Decatur Street Irving Ave., east from Decatur Street to the Manhattan Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad. The three story brick building at the right, is at the N.W. corner of Cooper and Irving Aves. December 1924. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
Irving Square Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn: Weirfield St. - Wilson Ave. 245-255 Weirfield Street, north side, at, adjoining and east of Wilson Ave. In the foreground, are the trolley tracks of the Wilson Ave., trolley lines. Also seen is the Irving Square Presbyterian Church. March 29, 1935. P. L. Sperr.
Bay Ridge Branch, LIRR
\[LIRR tracks: BMT Canarsie Line] Survey photograph along the Long Island Rail Road prior to construction of the subway line along this route. Photograph was taken from centerline of track A, looking south.
Church of St. Marten of Tours
St. Martin of Tours Facade and steeple of St. Martin of Tours Church, Hancock Street and Knickerbocker Avenue, with yard in foreground enclosed with iron fence, American flag on pole in yard, several pedestrians and telephone poles on far right, and residential buildings on both sides.
Church of St. Marten of Tours
Church, Church of St. Marten of Tours, Brooklyn. Front edge of altar toward transept.
Church of St. Marten of Tours
New Church of St. Martin of Tours Rendering (drawing) of facade of St. Martin of Tours Church with intersecting streets. Caption: "Hancock Street and Knickerbocker Avenue. Parish founded in February, 1906 ... and dedicated on September 30th of the same year. Cornerstone for new church ... laid on November 22, 1914. Dedication ceremonies were observed on May 21, 1916."
Church of St. Marten of Tours
St. Martin of Tours Facade and steeple (wood) of St. Martin of Tours Church, Hancock Street and Knickerbocker Avenue, with iron fence in left fourground, two pedestrians on far right, and residential buildings on both sides. (A later church, erected on this same site, was completed in 1916.).
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