Interesting Places in Brooklyn
Liberty Nursing Home - for sale - located on 1543
East New York Avenue. Across the street is a
housing project. Great building, now a relic in a
low income neighborhood
Borden's on Ralph Avenue - Moo
What lies in Ed Koch's Salvage Warehouse
on South 2nd Street?
Panoramas of Pennsylvania and Broadway -
desolation and deterioration. Check out
more historic panoramas here
Check in to the hobohouse on Broadway
Trolley Tracks on Union and Lorimer Avenue
Dutch looking houses on the Avenue -
I know it's blurry - I was riding - shoot me
Bergen Street and East New York Avenue
Damn Firetruck
Bushwick Avenue - This mansion belonged to Admiral Cook,
who
discovered the North Pole
Old Bohack's warehouse on Troutman Street
The Studebaker Building, 1469 Bedford Avenue (aka 737-745 Sterling
Place)
Tooker and Marsh, architects. Designated as a landmark December 19, 2000.
Built in 1920, the Studebaker Building is one of the few automobile
showrooms
remaining on Brooklyn's once thriving Automobile Row, the stretch of Bedford
Avenue running north
and south from Fulton Street to Empire Boulevard in Crown
Heights. The neo-Gothic
stile building is brick and white terra cotta made by the Atlantic
Terra Cotta Works,
the largest fabricator of architectural terra cotta in the world from
the turn-of-the-century to the
Depression. Cool features of the building include
segmental arched openings on the fourth floor,
batllemented parapet with black and
white terra-cotta wheel emblems, and neo-Gothic style details
including moldings,
colonettes, and figural sculpture. An excellent example of a commercial terra-cotta
clad structure which served as a company icon, the Studebaker Building
still has the
original terra-cotta
design inscribed with the name "Studebaker" in black cursive on a
diagonal banner across the
wheel emblem, an image that was used
by the corporation
on buildings all over the U.S.People live on the ground
and second floors. A good
building
in a now wack neighborhood
Ebbett's Field houses in Crown Heights - home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1912 through 1957.
They played at Ebbet's Field for 68 seasons and after 21 years of losses
the team won the National
Pennant in 1941. The parade was attended by over two million people. From
1947 to 1956 the team
went on to win six more National Pennants. In 1957, they left for California and become the L.A. Dodgers.
In 1960, Ebbets Field was demolished
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