This corner was the location of the Folly Theater which opened on the afternoon of October 14, 1901. The Folly was owned by Richard Hyde who -- according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle -- held a competition to determine the theater’s design. He selected the architectural firm Dodge & Morrison’s design which depicted a building with “numerous and direct exits.” Hyde’s decision might have been influenced by the recent Theater Building Laws that required new theatres to be built with multiple exits and fireproof materials. The Folly Theater was the first theater constructed under the new building laws and included twenty-six exits onto Graham Avenue and Debevoise Street along with four fire escapes. This story can be viewed in its original format here.

"875-893 Myrtle Ave., north side, between Marcy and Tompkins Aves., showing 9 cottages known as "Doctor's Row", 1929." Despite the drastic changes to the surrounding neighborhood (including the dismantling of the Myrtle Avenue El) these cottages remain.

L\&F Groceries at the corner of Sumner (Marcus Garvey Boulevard) and Park Avenues, October 19, 1958. The NYCHA Sumner Houses are visible at right. The thirteen-building housing development opened in April of that year.

"Vernon Avenue, west from and across Tompkins Avenue, showing a W. P. A. sewer project. On the left, At the S. E.corner of the two avenues, is the Brooklyn Traffic Court, 1936."

Italian-American restaurant and lunch room at 796 Flushing Avenue, 1923. The restaurant building, a wood-frame structure with a brick foundation, is still standing, though it’s clapboards and pediment detail have been stripped and covered with vinyl siding.

Buildings on the North Side of Park Avenue, Brooklyn, including a bathhouse at No. 801; October 19, 1958. This block would be razed in the late 1960s ahead of the construction of the Woodhull Medical Center.

Whipple Street east from Throop Avenue to Broadway, showing the south side of the street, 1941.