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Brooklyn Back in the Day, II: Downtown 1958

October 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Here’s what Downtown Brooklyn looked like fifty years ago, as we’re feeling in an historic mood today.

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  • 1 Brenda from Flatbush // Oct 19, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    What intersection is this?

  • 2 Andrew Porter // Oct 25, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    Late 1940s/early 1950s, judging from the cars. Photo taken from an El train platform (note rails in left foreground). Possibly somewhere later transformed into a housing project. A lot of sites which became housing projects are documented on the LaGuardia College website, which holds the digitized NYCHA archives.