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Back to School - Back in the Day
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Summer is coming to an end... it's time to hit the books! Take a look at these photographs of kids in the past doing just that.
97 Johnson Street
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Abandoned buildings on the north side of Johnson Street, between Jay and Lawrence Streets, July 19, 1959. No. 97 is the tallest, at center.
Downtown Brooklyn Before MetroTech
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The MetroTech Center is a large business and industrial hub in Downtown Brooklyn. Construction began in 1992, leading to the demolition of more than 100 houses and 50 businesses. Here, you can see what the streets looked like before MetroTech.
36 Lawrence Street
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Dilapidated wood-frame houses on Lawrence Street, July 26, 1959. Photographer John D. Morrell's vantage point is roughly at the southwestern corner of the George Westinghouse Jr. High School (P.S. 5).
33 Lawrence Street
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Boarded-up wood-frame houses on the east side of Lawrence Street, July 19, 1959. At far left is P.S. 5, which would become the George Westinghouse Vocational and Technical High School in 1963.
24 Lawrence Street
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General Exterminating Corp. at No. 24 Lawrence Street, July 26, 1959. This two-story brick structure, long-since razed for the MetroTech development, sat the southwest corner of Lawrence and Tillary streets, a site formerly occupied by an 1830s-era church. Built as the Second Baptist Church in 1834, the wood-frame structure was sold to the Free Presbyterian Church four years later. In 1845, that congregation elected to switch denominations, becoming Congregationalist. It is listed as a Congregational Methodist Church on an 1855 map. In response to Brooklyn's growing Polish population, Bishop Loughlin recruited Father Joseph Niedzielski of Cincinnati to become the pastor of the diocese's first Polish parish. The Tillary Street church was known as St. Casimir's from 1875 to 1890, when the parish outgrew its modest sanctuary. The humble church's next and final tenant was St. Michael the Archangel, a predominantly Italian parish. Al Capone, the infamous Chicago gangster, was born in Brooklyn and baptized at St. Michael's in January 1899. In 1942, St. Michael's merged with nearby St. Edward's in Fort Greene, leaving the 108-year-old church vacant.
290 Bridge Street
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Abandoned wood-frame dwellings at the corner of Bridge and Johnson Streets, July 26, 1959.
93-97 Johnson Street
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Wood-frame houses on Johnson Street, July 19, 1959.
30-34 Lawrence Street
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"Sippy's Trucking" garage at 30-34 Lawrence Street (far left), July 26, 1959.
87 Johnson Street
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Wood-frame house at No. 87 Johnson Street, between Jay and Bridge Streets, October 4, 1959.
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97 Johnson Street
Home of James J. Browne View of four-story brick residence at 97 Johnson Street, the home of Brooklyn Park Commissioner James J. Browne.
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Spirits soar on liberation day Caption: "Spirits soar on liberation day--After 191 days of homework, examinations, report cards, teachers and textbooks, first-graders at P. S. 5 \[located at Tillary Street and Bridge Street] report for the last 'shape-up' of school year and follow their teacher, Mary Cox, to freedom. Brooklyn streets echoed with jubilant shouts of youngsters yesterday when the school bell sounded for the last time until Sept. 14."
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You guessed it: school's out Caption: "You guessed it: school's out--It's 'liberation day' for thousands of school kids in Brooklyn today and the youngsters from Public School 5, Tillary and Bridge Sts., are in big hurry to make most of it. Plans for 74 days of fun-packed freedom was weitten all over their faces as they make bee-line dash for great outdoors."
97 Johnson Street
\[Old houses on north side of Johnson Street. Between Jay Street and Lawrence Street.] Old houses on north side of Johnson Street. Between Jay Street and Lawrence Street.
36 Lawrence Street
\[West side of Lawrence Street between Tillary Street and Johnson Street, looking south.] West side of Lawrence Street between Tillary Street and Johnson Street, looking south.
30-34 Lawrence Street
\[West side of Lawrence Street between Tillary Street and Johnson Street, looking south.] West side of Lawrence Street between Tillary Street and Johnson Street, looking south. Sippy's Trucking Co. (#30-34 Lawrence Street) at far left.
101 Johnson Street
\[Northwest corner of Lawrence Street (right) and Johnson Street.] Northwest corner of Lawrence Street (right) and Johnson Street.
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\[Northwest corner of Bridge Street (left) and Johnson Street (looking north.)] Northwest corner of Bridge Street (left) and Johnson Street (looking north.)
87 Johnson Street
\[Old house on north side of Johnson Street.] Old house on north side of Johnson Street between Jay Street + Bridge Street. It is just to east of building on corner of Jay Street.
93-97 Johnson Street
\[North side of Johnson Street between Jay Street and Lawrence Street.] North side of Johnson Street between Jay Street and Lawrence Street.
33 Lawrence Street
\[Old houses on east side of Lawrence Street between Johnson Street and Tillary Street.] Old houses on east side of Lawrence Street between Johnson Street and Tillary Street.
24 Lawrence Street
\[General Exterminating Corp., southwest corner of Lawrence Street and Tillary Street.] General Exterminating Corp., southwest corner of Lawrence Street and Tillary Street. 24 Lawrence Street, Lawrence Street side showing.
97 Johnson Street
James J. Browne View of Brooklyn Park Commissioner James J. Browne, center, and two other unidentified men standing at an unknown location, presumably in Brooklyn.
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P.S. 5 Facade of PS 5, a large, four-story masonry building with flag flying from roof, located at Tillary Street and Bridge Street.
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