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594 Atlantic Avenue at Flatbush Avenue
(aka 153 Flatbush Avenue)
Prospect Heights
Brooklyn, New York
This intersection would be the western tip of Atlantic Yards.
This is the self-proclaimed largest affiliate of Hatzoloh/Hatzolah/Hatzalah, the Jewish organization that is itself the largest volunteer ambulance service in the nation (and maybe the world). As was the case with the mikveh a few photos back, this building is laden with dedication plaques — there's one mounted on every single pillar and doorway on the first floor.
Flatbush Avenue near Atlantic Avenue
Park Slope
Brooklyn, New York
the Pacific Street Brooklyn Bears Community Garden overgrows the P.C. Richard and Son and Modell's Sporting Goods stores
these buildings, which are not built to the maximum size allowed by zoning and can therefore be considered "blighted", may be seized by eminent domain and demolished for Atlantic Yards.
Kenmore Terrace (1918–19)
Architect: Slee & Bryson
Off E. 21st St.
Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York
By 1918, new housing developments were featuring garages either behind or on the ground floors of houses. This was one of the first such developments in Brooklyn.
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI08-116
Founded in 1654 under the direction of everybody's favorite peg-legged, intolerant bastard (but then again, who wasn't in those days?) (these guys weren't!) (intolerant, that is, not peg-legged) (although odds are they weren't peg-legged either), Peter Stuyvesant.
The oldest legible stone here in the cemetery apparently dates to 1754; I saw several from that era (1760s and 1770s) during my brief stroll. While some of the markers are now too worn to be read, others have achieved unintelligibility simply by sinking into the ground over time, their recorded dates of death themselves becoming interred.
For an unusual take on this place, I'd recommend the beautiful photos and fevered narration of Mitch Waxman, who can generally be counted on for such things.
Flatbush Avenue station in Brooklyn features mosaic name tablets such as these in the typical Interborough Rapid Transit style.
Albemarle Terrace (1916–17)
Architect: Slee & Bryson
Off E. 21st St.
Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI08-115
Flatbush Town Hall (1874–75)
Architect: John Y. Culyer
Ruskinian Gothic
35 Snyder Ave.
Flatbush, Brooklyn
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI08-107