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Crown Heights, Brooklyn
The proposed Crown Heights North II Historic District is located directly south of the existing Crown Heights North Historic District in Brooklyn, and contains some of the borough’s finest and most exquisitely detailed row houses, attached houses, freestanding residences, institutional buildings, flats buildings and elevator apartment buildings dating from the middle of the nineteenth century to the 1930s. A showcase of the work of architects who played an important role in Brooklyn’s development, including George Chappell, Axel Hedman, W. M. Coots and Frank Helmle, the district is among Brooklyn’s most architecturally distinguished areas, retaining some of the borough’s most beautiful and well-preserved residential streets, and featuring a broad array of outstanding residential architecture in popular late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth century styles including the neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Renaissance, Dutch Renaissance, Colonial, Medieval and Tudor Revival styles.
The proposed district is bounded by Bergen Street and the existing Crown Heights North Historic District to the north, Brooklyn Avenue to the east, Eastern Parkway to the south, and Nostrand Avenue to the west, and consists of approximately 610 buildings.
Large-scale residential development in the proposed district took off following the opening in 1888 of the Kings County Elevated Railway, which ran through the area, then known as Bedford, along Fulton Street, and terminated near the Brooklyn Bridge.
Between 1887 and 1910, hundreds of exceptional freestanding, attached, and row houses were constructed in the area. One of the earliest freestanding houses in the proposed district is the Queen Anne-style house at 834 Prospect Place, designed by W.M. Coots’ and completed in 1887. At the turn-of-the century improvements in transportation and the high price of real estate encouraged the construction of flats and apartment buildings. Among the many fine examples in the extension is Shampan & Shampan’s 1921 Tudor Revival style apartment building at 770 St. Mark’s Avenue.
Serving the residents of late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Crown Heights North were a number of churches and other institutions. These include the Early Christian Revival style St. Gregory’s Roman Catholic Church (1913) by the noted architect Frank Helmle, and the Gothic Revival Style Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Home (1888-89) by Mercein Thomas.
Little architectural development has occurred in the proposed Crown Heights North II Historic District since the 1930s. Today, over a century after the major architectural development of Crown Heights North began, much of the area’s historic character remains unchanged, and buildings of unusual distinctiveness fill the area, reflecting the innovative quality and beauty of Brooklyn’s late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century architecture.
More than 5000 flags decorate the entrance to Prospect Hill Cemetery. The flags respectfully represent our deceased veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
April 2009
Operator: Prospect Coaches, Stourbridge
Vehicle Type: Volvo B12M / Plaxton Panther
Registration: PC10 BOS
Pictured in Halesowen working a shuttle service for Halesowen College.
25/6/2024.
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Unusually large crowed showed up this morning for the first official event in NYC Parks since hurricane Sandy devastating blow to the city. Around 2000 runners, up to 5 times the usual amount, attended the 9AM 5K run around the Prospect Park in Park Slope, Brooklyn, organized by Prospect Park Alliance and the NYC Road Runners Club .
The unusual large crowd of runners is believe to be direct flow from the canceled NYC Marathon which was set to run trough five boroughs tomorrow.
The 9AM run was followed by 5K around the park walkathon which also had record number of walkers.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1894)
Sculptor: Henry Baerer
Concert Grove
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI10-1756
Being filmed during the ceremony, Sarah McHarg's tiny Book of Psalms, found with her body in 1843, with final messages written in her blood to her family. Now in the hands of Sue Ward, Coordinator of Archival Collection Development at the State Library of South Australia, after she had been presented with the book during the ceremony. Pictured here also is Jordan Ralph from Flinders University Archaeology Department, currently working with the Prospect Hill Community Association on a Sharing Community Heritage Stories project funded by the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
"Archie" the macaw enjoying the first decent spring weather on the branches of a saucer magnolia in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
Driftwood sculpture in Derek Jarman's Garden
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Framed copy of studio portrait of Sarah McHarg, c1840; displayed on tree near the point where she set out in June 1841, at the unveiling of the commemorative plaque ceremony, 170 years after her remains were found on 25 August 1843. The picture is now displayed permanently at the Prospect Hill Museum.
From the 2008 Westford Conservation Trust calendar:
Prospect Hill Wildlife Sanctuary is in center of Westford on the highest hill in northern Middlesex County. The land was donated by Priscella Elliott in 1999 and includes 8 acres of woodland and an adjoining cornfield. The woods include a champion Shagbark Hickory tree -- the largest one in Massachusetts. The short hike is steep and once you start up the hill there is a feeling of deep woods -- right in town center.
"One hundred and fifty years ago, standing on this height, we probably could have seen the church spires of Concord. Now....it is all woods." -- From "Walking Towards Walden" by John Hanson Mitchell.