[Hall of Records Building, Brooklyn, NY]
View down a narrow yet to be widened Adams Street south to Fulton St and old Hall of Records in Brooklyn, NY. Defunct trolley tracks are visible on street and are paved over at intersection. Also pictured at corner is Goodman's Annex watch and pen repair. All buildings would be removed and Adams Street widened in late 1950's/early 60's for Civic Center project.
New York Transit MuseumHall of Records, ca. 1950.
The Brooklyn Civic Center looks much different today than it did in the early 20th century. At that time the largest municipal building was the Hall of Records. Erected on the corner of Boerum and Fulton, the classical, limestone building was designed by William Mundell between 1885 and 1887. The building housed the vital records of first the city of Brooklyn and then the borough of Brooklyn. In the 1950s during the Civic Center Urban Renewal, the Hall of Records and its even older neighbor, the Brooklyn Courthouse, were razed for the newly expanded Cadman Plaza. In 1961 the Brooklyn Law School replaced the two grand 19th-century buildings.
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