In today’s New York Sun, architectural historian Francis Morrone does a fly-over of the proposed Crown Heights North historic district (bounded, he notes, on the north by Pacific and Dean streets, on the west by Bedford and Brooklyn avenues, on the south by Dean Street and Prospect Place, and on the east by Brooklyn and Kingston avenues). First stop: Grant Square, at Bedford and Dean, which features the 1896 statue of Ulysses S. Grant by William Ordway Partridge. The statue, we learn, was donated by the highbrow Union League club (which still exists in Manhattan), whose clubhouse used to be on the Southeast corner of Bedford and Dean. Quite a reminder of the area’s former economic status. Morrone touches on a few more greatest hits, like the armory and the Montrose Morris classic at the southeast corner of Bedford and Pacific, before wrapping things up with a shout-out to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
The Richest Architecture in Brooklyn [NY Sun]
Photo from the Bridge & Tunnel Club