Here is a shot of Brooklyn’s original 68th precinct on 43rd street & 4th ave. Shut down in the early 1970s, it has been closed and boarded up for my whole life. There were plans of opening up some sort of music school in the building in the late 1980s/early 1990s, but that those plans never materialized. The property was purchased by new owners earlier this year so hopefully they’ll do something good with it before it crumbles away completely. The attached garage on the left was once a stable for NYPD horses. Photo appears to have been taken some time in the late 1980s.
Category Archives: Photos
Street Band in NYC
This photo was taken by Arthur Rothstein in December 1947.
The ONYX
East 3rd Street & Avenue C
East 3rd Street & Avenue C, Lower East Side, NY, 1947, by Jonathan Brandt.
59 and 1/2 Mulberry Street, c1890
Photo by Richard Hoe Lawrenece with Jacob Riis.
Children in Mullens Alley off Cherry Street, New York City, 1888
Photo by Jacob Riis.
Kingsborough Housing Project, Brooklyn, NY
Kingsborough Housing Project, Brooklyn, NY, 1940s, by Joe Schwartz
Manhattan Bridge Under Construction – 1905
Courtesy of the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Beat Street
B-Boying at SW Corner of Madison Square (Beat Street, 1984)
Brownsville, Brooklyn 1972
Courtesy of Winston Vargas.