[Joralemon and Court Streets: IRT Brooklyn Line]
Survey photograph documenting conditions in the Borough Hall area of Brooklyn Heights at the intersection of Joralemon and Court Streets on the IRT Brooklyn Line. View of street corner below the elevated line shows pedestrians on the sidewalk, trolley cars, horse drawn carriage, mounted police officer, and at center, laborers work on the pneumatic tube system that took mail between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The camera is on the sidewalk at southeast corner of Court and Joralemon Streets looking west showing New York Mail and Newspaper Transportation Company's work.
New York Transit MuseumElevated trestle over Fulton Street, at Boerum Place (Court Square), July 23, 1907.
The stairway at center left led to the Boerum Place station on the Fulton Street and Brighton elevated lines. At left is the former Hall of Records building across Boerum Place.
Borough Hall is visible in the background, at center, beyond the elevated tracks. At right, the flatiron-shaped building between Fulton and Adams streets is the office of the Brooklyn Citizen newspaper.
The intersection has been transformed over the last century, with the 1940 closure and dismantling of the Fulton Street elevated tracks the most striking change. By 1961, the Hall of Records and Supreme Court Buildings had been demolished ahead of the construction of the Brooklyn Law School, while Boerum Place has been widened to meet vehicular traffic coming off the Brooklyn Bridge, via Adams Street.
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