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This photo of Bedford Stuyvesant from 1923 looks like a movie set. Where are all the people? The local Musicians union was housed in this lovely wooden house at the corner of Lexington and Ralph Avenues, though their jam sessions must have been rudely interrupted by the rumbling of the elevated BMT subway line.
Photo from The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn by Kenneth T. Jackson and John B. Manbeck.


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  1. My goodness I live right around the corner
    from the this site of where the picture was taken….and Thanks you for posting this pic. I always wondered what old Bed-Stuy once looked like, now I know!

  2. Mr. B,
    Why don’t you start a campaign to lobby NYC to build new buildings (within brownstone brooklyn) with the similar style of the “brownstone architecture”? It is done in other cities, so why can’t it be done in NY?