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533 Leonard Street image

533 Leonard Street
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533 Leonard Street, formerly Public School No. 59, taken on May 19, 1931.
St. Stanislaus Kostka image

St. Stanislaus Kostka
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607 Humboldt Street 1903–04 This Gothic Revival church, with a capacity of 1,250 worshippers, houses the largest Polish Catholic congregation in Brooklyn. In fact, the flanking stretches of Humboldt Street and Driggs Avenue were renamed Pope John Paul II Square and Lech Walesa Place, who each made visits to the parish. The church’s most marked feature is its spires that stand tall over the neighborhood. They are asymmetrical to one another, octagonal in shape and richly ornate.
St. Stanislaus Kostka image

St. Stanislaus Kostka
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St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church, ca. 1900. In 1896, Fr. Leon Wysiecki of St. Casimir’s in Fort Greene purchased 10 contiguous lots in Greenpoint, where he built a new Polish-language church. The present Gothic Revival church was completed in 1904 and quickly became a center of North Brooklyn’s growing Polish community. St. Stanislaus continues to hold mass in Polish, seven days a week.
McGolrick Park World War I Memorial image

McGolrick Park World War I Memorial
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The Greenpoint War Memorial, dedicated in 1923, is a monument to the over one-hundred residents of Greenpoint who lost their lives fighting in World War I. The Greenpoint Memorial Association commissioned the statue. The group was spearheaded by Peter McGuiness, a famous local for whom McGuiness Boulevard is named. The statue, which stands at 17 feet tall, depicts a bronze winged Victory holding two symbols of peace, a laurel and palm frond. The granite pedestal the allegorical figure is perched atop is inscribed with French battle sites. The front of the pedestal bears the inscription: TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD HEROES OF GREENPOINT WHO FOUGHT IN THE WORLD WAR BECAUSE THEY LOVED AMERICA REVERED ITS IDEALS UNDER GOD AND SUPPORTED ITS INSTITUTIONS AND GAVE THEIR ALL THAT OUR GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH Poor lady Victory underwent fairly significant damage over the years. The statue was resurfaced and reset first in 1937. In 1962, an unfortunate accident left the statue scorched during the holiday season after a ring of Christmas Trees around the memorial caught ablaze, know only as the "Christmas Tree Fire." The memorial's palm frond was stolen in 1975, and vandals toppled the winged woman the following year. Luckily, the monument was repaired and reset immediately after her fall. The palm leaf and laurel were replaced and the lady Victory received surface patina, cleaning, and conservation work in 2000.

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McGolrick Park World War I Memorial image

McGolrick Park World War I Memorial

Memorial, Greenpoint World War I memorial showing bronze winged victory figure by sculptor Carl Augustus Heber on pedestal in Msgr. McGolrick Park in Greenpoint; woman posing before pedestal at lower right and looking into camera; other pedestrians and shelter pavilion in background.
McGolrick Park Pavilion image

McGolrick Park Pavilion

Brooklyn 78, Mnsgr. McGoldrick Park, Shelter Pavilion, Nassau Ave. & Monitor St; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
McGolrick Park Pavilion image

McGolrick Park Pavilion

McGolrick Park Pavilion image

McGolrick Park Pavilion

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Messiah  image

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Messiah

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Messiah Facade and tower of Messiah Lutheran Church, 129 Russell Street, with iron fence along front, free-standing church sign ("Messiah Lutheran Church"), and residential buildings on both sides. Caption: "Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Messiah, Russell Street, Greenpoint. Founded on October 30, 1899..."
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Messiah  image

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Messiah

Church of the Messiah Facade and tower of Church of the Messiah, Greene Avenue and Clermont Avenue, with iron fence along front, fence and bushes along right side, adjacent buildings on both sides, intersecting streets, and leafless trees in foreground.
Public School 110 image

Public School 110

Public School No. 110, Driggs Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Public School 110 image

Public School 110

P.S. 110 Facade of PS 110, a large, four-story, masonry building with tower on each end, located at 124 Monitor Street, with adjacent buildings on both sides, a group of schoolboys sitting on lawn in front of building, and large area of lawn with walk in foreground.
Public School 110 image

Public School 110

Brooklyn 79, P.S. 110 (The Monitor), 124 Monitor St; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
152 Russell Street image

152 Russell Street

Brooklyn: Russell Street - Norman Avenue 152 Russell Street, west side, between Norman and Nassau Aves., showing the First Scandanavian Lutheran Church. March 3, 1935. P. L. Sperr. 1st Scandinavian Lutheran Church. Russell St. near Nassau Ave., B'klyn. Sept. 1, 1939 P.L. Sperr, photographer
255 Nassau Avenue image

255 Nassau Avenue

Brooklyn: Kingsland Avenue - Nassau Avenue N.5. corner of Kingsland & Nassau Ave., B'klyn. Sept 1, 1933 P.L. Sperr, photographer
St. Stanislaus Kostka image

St. Stanislaus Kostka

Honor deceased members Crowd on street participating in and watching ceremony. Two men in right foreground carry wreath, four men in left foreground wearing military uniforms (two carrying flags, two carrying rifles), men carrying flags in left background, many parked automobiles, and iron fence in center foreground. Caption: "Honor deceased members--Nick Stefanizzi, Commander of St. Stanislaus Memorial Post, American Legion, and County Commander James Lombardy, place wreath at base of statue commemorating deceased members who died in both world wars and the Koreon \[sic] conflict, at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Driggs Ave. and Humboldt St. Ceremony followed Fifth Annual Memorial Mass at the church and parade."
St. Stanislaus Kostka image

St. Stanislaus Kostka

St. Stanislaus Kostka image

St. Stanislaus Kostka

Humboldt Street. St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic. Church.
St. Luke's Evangelical Reformed Church image

St. Luke's Evangelical Reformed Church

Prospective social club Facade and steeple (wood) of church with sign above doorway, iron fence along front, small trees, telephone pole and lines and portion of truck in left foreground, and portions of residential buildings on both sides. Caption: "Prospective social club--St. Luke's Evangelical Reformed Church at 55 Sutton St., which is to be sold to the Van Dam Social Club."
St. Luke's Evangelical Reformed Church image

St. Luke's Evangelical Reformed Church

St. Luke's Church Facade and steeple (wood) of St. Luke's Evangelical Reformed Church, 55 Sutton Street, with church sign attached to wall at left of doorway, iron fence along front, small tree on far left and portions of residential buildings on both sides.
Broome Street and McGuinness Boulevard image

Broome Street and McGuinness Boulevard

Greenpoint - McGuinness Boulevard Greenpoint - McGuinness Boulevard at Broome Street.
Broome Street and McGuinness Boulevard image

Broome Street and McGuinness Boulevard

Greenpoint - Empty Lot on McGuinness Boulevard Greenpoint - Empty lot on McGuinness Boulevard near Broome Street.
226 Frankline Avenue image

226 Frankline Avenue

Corner of Green and Franklin Street Corner of Green Street and Franklin Street.
55 McGuinness Boulevard image

55 McGuinness Boulevard

Greenpoint - Hero's Plus on McGuinness Boulevard Greenpoint - Restaurant on McGuinness Boulevard from Holy Name Square at Engert and Newton Streets.
55 McGuinness Boulevard image

55 McGuinness Boulevard

Greenpoint - Hero's Plus on McGuinness Boulevard Greenpoint - Restaurant on McGuinness Boulevard from Holy Name Square at Engert and Newton Streets.
55 McGuinness Boulevard image

55 McGuinness Boulevard

Greenpoint - Hero's Plus on McGuinness Boulevard Greenpoint - Restaurant on McGuinness Boulevard from Holy Name Square at Engert and Newton Streets.
131 Nassau Avenue image

131 Nassau Avenue

Corner of Nassau Street and Oakland Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, undated (ca. October 1918).
131 Nassau Avenue image

131 Nassau Avenue

Corner of Nassau Street and Oakland Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, undated (ca. October 1918).
62 Monitor Street image

62 Monitor Street

Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Monitor Street Meeker Avenue, south side, west from Monitor Street, showing at the corner the Kroder Riebl Co. plant, manufacturers of brass goods. view 1: August 13, 1938 View 2: September 1, 1939 P. L. Sperr Note: The buildings shown in view 1 were torn down later to make way for the approach to the Kosciuszko Bridge over Newtown Creek. View 2 shows the S.E. corner of Meeker and Monitor, after some of the buildings were razed.
55 Monitor Street image

55 Monitor Street

Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Monitor Street Meeker Avenue, south side, west from Monitor Street, showing at the corner the Kroder Riebl Co. plant, manufacturers of brass goods. view 1: August 13, 1938 View 2: September 1, 1939 P. L. Sperr Note: The buildings shown in view 1 were torn down later to make way for the approach to the Kosciuszko Bridge over Newtown Creek. View 2 shows the S.E. corner of Meeker and Monitor, after some of the buildings were razed.
50 N Henry Street image

50 N Henry Street

Brooklyn: Henry Street (North) - Meeker Avenue North Henry Street, south from Meeker Avenue, showing at the corner the Erader Rubl Co., manufacturers of brass goods. August 13, 1938. P. L. Sperr
731 Meeker Avenue image

731 Meeker Avenue

Board of Water Supply. City Water Tunnel No. 2. Geological test borings on Meeker Avenue between Driggs Avenue and Hausman Street. Looking west. Showing a typical rig for sinking land borings through earth and rock. The rig as assembled is equipped for sinking casing. The diamond drilling frame lies on the ground at right center of photograph. July 8, 1927.
Driggs Avenue and Leonard Street image

Driggs Avenue and Leonard Street

Board of Water Supply. Laying water distribution pipes. Peter F. Connolly Company, contractor. View looking north on Leonard Street from a point just south of Driggs Avenue. Showing street conditions during the construction of the 72-inch steel pipeline. September 29, 1926.
533 Leonard Street image

533 Leonard Street

87th Precinct Police Station image

87th Precinct Police Station

Brooklyn 80, 87th Precinct Police Station, 37 Herbert St; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
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