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By the Bridge; One Third of a Nation

York Street and Garrison Street

By the Bridge; One Third of a Nation

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York Street at the Brooklyn Bridge looking north along Garrison Street, ca. 1935.

Garrison Street was a small, crooked alley that ran from York Street (the road seen in the foreground) to Front Street. It ran parallel to the bridge for only a hundred or so feet then sharply turned to the north (right) where it ran perpendicular into Front Street. Named after John Garrison a butcher who became a judge and was later the first president of Brooklyn Village.

While they survived the building of the adjacent Brooklyn Bridge, they were lost in the mid-century urban development and construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the 1950s.

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