[113-115 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]
Some serious density of signage. The camera angle makes this corner look like the Leaning Tower of Brooklyn, but in truth it’s the tip of an triangle bounded by Flatbush Avenue (to the left), Ashland Place (to the right), and Lafayette Avenue (out of sight).
Everything in that triangle, along with the El, is gone, and there’s now an Apple Store on the corner. But the Brooklyn Academy of Music is still going, on Ashland Place, Fulton Street, and Lafayette Avenue. Elaine and I saw Twyla Tharp Dance perform at BAM in 1984. And I said hello to André Gregory in the lobby.
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Back then, jewelers often housed opticians
It occurs to me that your picture posts are proof that a person may eschew isolation and alienation, because a feeling of home and membership, with a little effort, happens between the ears: Even in a city with literally millions of people.
I think it's common for people in large cities or anywhere else to make mental maps of their territory. That's where I.... That's where we..... Yes, it makes the place intimate.
Dang — I missed the eyeglasses. Good catch!
https://www.urbanarchive.org/sites/cJotM32uu1g/oQhpAZCQ2tf
here is another shot, mabye earlier
https://www.urbanarchive.org/sites/4ATrift6hEX/bLNSafr5cHZ
view from afar
That does look like an older picture. hanks, Anon.
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