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Puritan Congregational Church, not dated. The history of this church dated 1863 when a group of teachers from the Wallabout Presbyterian Church established a Sabbath school. Within a year the school had grown while located at a storefront space on Myrtle Avenue. Originally named the East Brooklyn Congregational Church, the community broke ground for a place of worship in 1864 at DeKalb Avenue and Walworth Street. The congregation supposedly moved here to the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Marcy Avenue in 1869. Much of the later history of the parish is unknown. A 20th-century newspaper article noted that this building was constructed in 1890. The congregation may have disbanded or merged with another. In 1924, the building was sold to St. Augustine Protestant Episcopal Church. The church and neighboring school were sadly lost to a fire in 1969.

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604 Marcy Avenue

Board of Water Supply. Laying water distribution pipes. Southwest corner of Marcy Avenue, looking west. A milk delivery at the corner of Willoughby Avenue and Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn, where lengths of pipe line the street during construction. The Alexander Campbell Milk Company distributed milk in glass bottles from wagons that began their daily routes at 2 a.m. Campbell claimed to have built the first creamery for bottled milk in the United States and developed the first glass bottle for milk by 1910. It merged with Borden's Farm Products in 1918. The grocery selling "milk, butter, eggs, and fancy groceries" and displaying a pyramid of sardine cans is gone�replaced eventually by the Red Gate Community Garden�but the brownstones on the right are still standing. Construction at this corner was particularly tricky because the water pipe had to cross underneath the existing brick sewer. September 23, 1914.
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Public School 54

Last call for breakfast Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 1314, SCHL 1315), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three images: caption: "Last call for breakfast--Under the watchful eye of her mother, Mrs. Ruth Desperak of 349 Clifton Place, Fay, 2 1/2, makes short work of the model breakfast arranged by parents and teachers at P. S. 54, 195 Sanford St. Six-year-old Ronald Sykes, 1031 Bedford Ave., moves full steam ahead as Deborah Lea Malin\[s]ky, 3 1/2, of 106 Hart St., watches parther, Medista Mealing, also 3 1/2, of 339 Clifton Place, make a trial run on her breakfast cereal. The week-long breakfast program, served to 150 children and parents in the school cafeteria, was inaugurated to improve the eating habits of the youngsters and instruct parents in the purchase of low cost, high nutrition foods. ..."
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Public School 54

Last call for breakfast Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 1314, SCHL 1315), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three images: caption: "Last call for breakfast--Under the watchful eye of her mother, Mrs. Ruth Desperak of 349 Clifton Place, Fay, 2 1/2, makes short work of the model breakfast arranged by parents and teachers at P. S. 54, 195 Sanford St. Six-year-old Ronald Sykes, 1031 Bedford Ave., moves full steam ahead as Deborah Lea Malin\[s]ky, 3 1/2, of 106 Hart St., watches parther, Medista Mealing, also 3 1/2, of 339 Clifton Place, make a trial run on her breakfast cereal. The week-long breakfast program, served to 150 children and parents in the school cafeteria, was inaugurated to improve the eating habits of the youngsters and instruct parents in the purchase of low cost, high nutrition foods. ..."
Public School 54 image

Public School 54

Last call for breakfast Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 1314, SCHL 1315), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three images: caption: "Last call for breakfast--Under the watchful eye of her mother, Mrs. Ruth Desperak of 349 Clifton Place, Fay, 2 1/2, makes short work of the model breakfast arranged by parents and teachers at P. S. 54, 195 Sanford St. Six-year-old Ronald Sykes, 1031 Bedford Ave., moves full steam ahead as Deborah Lea Malin\[s]ky, 3 1/2, of 106 Hart St., watches parther, Medista Mealing, also 3 1/2, of 339 Clifton Place, make a trial run on her breakfast cereal. The week-long breakfast program, served to 150 children and parents in the school cafeteria, was inaugurated to improve the eating habits of the youngsters and instruct parents in the purchase of low cost, high nutrition foods. ..."