Brooklyn Views, A Half-Century Ago
These photos of the views from the top of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank landed in our Inbox over the weekend. Forwarded by Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY, the photos (which you can click on to expand) were taken by Patrick Cullinan in June 1962. The first photo looks north, with Brooklyn Tech and Fort Greene…
These photos of the views from the top of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank landed in our Inbox over the weekend. Forwarded by Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY, the photos (which you can click on to expand) were taken by Patrick Cullinan in June 1962. The first photo looks north, with Brooklyn Tech and Fort Greene Park visible on the right and the Empire State building straight ahead. In the second one you can see Lafayette Avenue cutting east up the hill to the Masonic Temple. Pretty great!
I’ll point out the apparent dustbowl in Fort Greene Park evident in one of the photos! There was a big controversy about the dustbowl on the New York Times Fort Greene Blog last year. I guess the dustbowl is not all that recent in the end!
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Pier 6 is supposed to be opened on Mother’s Day.
So I heard.
does anyone know when pier 6 of brooklyn bridge park opens? I know it said a month from pier 1, but i was wondering is anyone knew the actual date.
Im itchin for some beach volleyball…
Such cool shots. Pretty amazing how little has actually changed in those vistas over the years. If you didn’t look too closely those shots could have been taken last year.
I think maybe you have the descriptions of the two pictures swapped? It’s the first one that appears to have the Empire State Building visible in the distance, with the lower Manhattan skyscrapers on the top left.
Pretty cool. In the upper picture you can see the old theatres that used to be in the Albee Square area, to the left of the Granada, the Fox Theatre, for sure, with the sign, and what’s the other large one? The Paramount? Albee?
You can also see the Clermont Armory in the second photo, far to the left of the Masonic Temple, near the park.
Kevin Walsh is the man – love that forgotten ny site.
Minard, when you have a chance, would you please email me at carrollgardened AT gmail DOT com?
Grenada Hotel, front and (left-)center in the top photograph, looking better in 1962 than when I knew it as a “welfare hotel.”