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."
Brooklyn Public LibrarySt. 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.
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