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| EAST NEW YORK, from Highland Boulevard Dated:1900 Maker: P. Miller Status: Own(RG) This view, looking down from the Sunnyside area, is where Hendrix meets Jamaica. Go to the Hendrix page if you want to review the clues that helped me ID the view. While investigating this, Jacqui Ascenzi passed me a great story about a house in the area, circled in the Live Local image on the right. 
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Miller and Sunnyside Avenues Maker: Wm. Fick Dated: 1911 Status: Own(BG) These two images are from around 1911. The first shows the orchards on Miller's farmland, the area north of Jamaica we associate with Sunnyside. That is Miller's house in the background.The early Wm. Fick postcard on the right shows the Sunnyside area prior to development. .
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Vermont and Jamaica Ave. This 1929 view is looking west down Jamaica from Vermont. The tall four story building is the Schmidt Brewery, and beyond it, the Breitkopf Hotel. The "Socony" sign is an early gas station. (NYPLD archive) |
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Pennsylvania and Jamaica Ave. Union Hook and Ladder#1 was formed in 1862 and the firehouse was located on Plank Road (Jamaica Ave). I'm guessing this shot dates from the 1870s, from "Good Old East New York". The view on the right in north up Pennsylvania towards Jamaica from Fulton Street in 1929. The large building is identified as the L. Brietkopf Hotel, founded 1912. Possibly removed when they built the Interboro. (NYPLD archive) |
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Howard Hotel, Alabama and Atlantic. The Howard Hotel sat on the northwest corner of Atlantic and Alabama Ave. Built by Philip Reid in 1853, it was the stopping point of the steam trains from NY and was considered a grand hotel in its day. This shot is of its inglorious end as a laundry, before it was razed in April 1929. |
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P.S. 61, Fulton and New Jersey Avenue This photo is from the 1930s and identifies the school as a "reformatory school". In the 1940s it was used by "home relief" to give out clothes to the needy. The 1950 shot on the right is of my dad and coworkers outside of the building after it was converted to a factory.
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Fulton St., west of Sheffield, 1919 These two shots, from the Brian Merlis collection, show Fulton Street looking west and east from Sheffield Ave. in 1919. The large building on the left was the Wartburg Lutheran Home for the Aged.That building was on the 1893 Plat maps so it was there for some time. In the distance on the right the building with the sloped roof was Bookmans Dry Goods (see below). I need some train buff to explain that third track in the middle of the El. Fulton, East of Sheffield 1919 Penn Fulton Hall can be seen on the left facing Pennsylvania Avenue. It was an important meeting place in the early days of East New York; the 1st library was also located there and plans to build the Arlington Library were discussed there regularly. My question; where is that middle track we saw in the other image facing west? UPDATE: Bob Andersen, who runs the great Lirrhistory website, informs me the third track was simply a crossover track, which disappeared when the Alabama Ave. station was extended shortly after these pictures were taken. |
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Northwest corner, Fulton and Georgia early 1900s. Identified as the location of Bookman's Dry Goods from 1852 to 1874. Started by Max and Adolph Bookman, this was apparently a significant business; "practically everyone in New Lots and many in surburban towns patronized them" (From "Old Days"). Ralph Bookman took over (the "R" on that card). |
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Wartburg Lutheran Home Chapel, Georgia Ave. The Wartburg Lutheran Home, pictured above,sat on Fulton Street. The chapel serving the home was on the east side of Georgia Ave.(15) between Fulton and Atlantic as seen in the promo postcard on the left in 1962. The 2007 update photo on the right shows the chapel parallel to Georgia Ave; I assumed they moved it at some point?. |
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BRT Clubhouse Dated:1910 Maker: Wm. Fick Status: Own (BG) Card#2 Dated 1907 Maker Seyffarth Status: Need Apparently the BRT buildings sat where the original Howard's Tavern was located. |
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BRT Clubhouse The interior shot is from 1906 showing a band rehearsing in the clubhouse. Neil Sullivan provided the 2006 shot of the location of the clubhouse. |
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East New York Avenue On the left, a shot from the Brian Merlis archives, shows the intersection of East New York Avenue and Atlantic in 1923. Of particular interest to us was the "steeple" , visible in the distance in the center of the photo, of Trinity Hospital. We have a page devoted to the hospital here.On the right is a shot from the 1930s from aRRts aRRchives; it is taken from the exact same angle yet almost all the buildings have changed in just a few years. |
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Manhattan Crossing, East New York(Brooklyn) Maker: Unk Dated: Unk Status: Need This is a reminder we do have an LIRR page, though it is a bit stale. I moved this card here because Father Philip Pizzo pointed out to me that the church in this image is Our Lady of Loretto. Located on the corner of Pacific and Sackman, it was founded in 1894 and was the local home of the Italian population before the founding of St. Rita's in 1913. On the right is Neil Sullivan's 2006 shot of the ENY station. |
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Atlantic Ave., Looking East From Kings County L Station Maker: Souvenir Post Card Co. Dated: 1907 Status: Own(RG) Atlantic Avenue Looking East, East New York (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Maker: Unk Dated: Unk Status: Need Two similar views, the card titles are self explanatory though I cannot identify any landmarks in the view. |
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William Ave. M.E. Church Maker: Unk Dated: 1907 Status: Own (RG) This church, located at 60 Williams Avenue just south of Atlantic, appears on the 1873 maps. The congregation merges into the Andrews Methodist congregation in 1923 and in 1929 a CO is issued to the Congregation Talmud Torah Chodosh. The synagogue sells the property in 1966 and the building is demolished. In 1968 the city opens a brick 5-story welfare office at the location. In 2002 the building was purchased and repurposed as the Trey Whitfield School, a private elementary school. The school, which had been previously using other quarters, opened in 2004. |
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East New York Field Day I'm pretty certain we have pinpointed the area of this shot. The first clue I have extracted is from "Old Days"; "The Parade Ground was a tract of land west of Alabama Avenue where military reviews and drills were held." I've now included a map taken from the inside jacket of Landesmann's book, "History of New Lots" It shows the location of the parade grounds. |
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Entrance to Evergreen Cemetery, East New York Dated: 1907 Maker: Souvenir Postcard Co. Status: Own(BG) Bushwick Ave., East New York Brooklyn Maker: Commercial Art Dated: Unk Status: Need Two views of Bushwick Ave. The history of Evergreen Cemetery can be found here. |
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Trommers Brewery I'm probably cheating a little bit into Bushwick here but Trommers was a big local brewery and the garden shot in the postcard on the right is the closest I have to an image of the beer gardens that were popular in the early days. Trommers was located on the south side of Bushwick Ave. off of Conway St. The image on the left, from the Brian Merlis archives, is a view north across the transit yards. I'm not sure what that large building is in the distance on the left. Trommers sells out the plant to Piels and closes in 1950. There is a neat little history of Trommers located here. One tidbit; John Trommer starts the brewery in 1897 by buying the brewery of Stehlin & Breitkopf. Note the hotel mentioned in the shot of Jamaica Ave. and Pennsylvania. It was a common strategy back then for breweries to have ties to restaturants and hotels. |
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Carlucci's Dominick Mondelli sent in this shot of Carlucci's, which sat at 1845 Eastern Parkway. A neighborhood favorite, Carlucci's served from 1950 to 1977. | |
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Lutheran Hospital and Dispensary, East New York Ave. and Junius Street Maker: Unk Dated:1914 Status:Own(BG) Although some sources list 1887 as the start date for the hospital, I found an article in the Eagle dated October 31, 1881, announcing the opening of the hospital. The original building was also a converted private residence just like Trinity Hospital. Elsie Anzalone comes up with a shot from 1961 after the birth of her second child! The postcard has no manufacturer identified. |
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The cornerstone for the new hospital is laid on May 8, 1927. Neil Sullivan not only supplies a 1940 shot of the hospital but a shot of the location today in 2006; we do not know when it was demolished. |
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East New York Junction and Gotham Theater, Brooklyn Dated: 1914 Maker:P. Miller Status:Own (RG) The Gotham has a short but colorful history so I built a Gotham Theater Page. Neil Sullivan provided the 2005 image of the junction. Train buff Alan Zelaso explained to me that upper structure was for an express service that was never completed. |
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House of the Good Shepherd,Hopkinson Ave and Pacific Street, East New York Dated: 1907 Maker: Souvenir Post Card Co. Status: Own (BG) This building was a Catholic Reformatory for women and girls, built in 1875, the Brooklyn chapter of the organization was founded in 1868. It has been replaced with an apartment complex, seen on the right in a photo submitted by Neil Sullivan. I have built a full page with more photos and a history which can be found here. |