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March 21, 2006
Before and After Photos from The Burg
Over at NYC-Architecture, Tom Fletcher has been working on his own before-and-after photo series of Williamsburg. Starting with a series of black and white photos from 1910, he's been reshooting a number of the scenarios today in color. Our first reaction: Though we have a soft spot for the current industrial landscape, the Burg was a helluva lot more charming a century ago, well before Robert Moses decimated the neighborhood by running the BQE through the middle of it. (See here for a good overview of Williamsburg's history.) Maybe that's why we have such affection for those few remaining original storefronts in the nabe.
Williamsburg History [NYC-Architecture]
Comments
Brian Merlis also has anew book full of old-time Williamsburg pictures
http://www.blockmagazine.com/block_stock_barrel.php?title=lstronggbrooklyn_s_williamsburghl_strong&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Posted by: Kevin Walsh at March 21, 2006 10:50 AM
jeez leave Robert Moses out of it, he wasn't selling siding or forcing people to remove their corniches
Posted by: will at March 22, 2006 1:31 PM
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