ThrowbackThursday Archives

Children playing on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Ryerson Street in 1915. (Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn Historical Society)

Entertainment, FG/CH News, Neighbors

#ThrowbackThursday: “The Old Swimming Hole” in Clinton Hill

June 19, 2014

Neighborhood kids have been playing in open hydrants since at least 1915.

The Pratt Institute Library, built in 1887, was the first public library in Brooklyn. (Image courtesy the Brooklyn Museum)

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#ThrowbackThursday: Pratt Institute Library in 1907

June 12, 2014

See an early color postcard of the first public library in Brooklyn.

A view of Fort Greene Park in 1904. (Photo courtesy the Library of Congress)

Arts, FG/CH News

#ThrowbackThursday: Fort Greene Park in 1904

May 29, 2014

Check out an early color photograph of Fort Greene Park in this week’s #ThrowbackThursday.

The Brooklyn Tabernacle the Hotel Regent next door on Greene Avenue at Clinton Avenue burned to the ground in 1894. (Image courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum)

FG/CH News, Real Estate, Religion

#ThrowbackThursday: Burning of the Brooklyn Tabernacle and Hotel Regent in 1894

May 22, 2014

Check out a picture of a fire on Greene Avenue and Clinton Avenue, which destroyed a popular church in 1894.

Boys working in the foundry at Brooklyn Technical High School, date unknown. (Photo courtesy of the

FG/CH News, Neighbors, Schools

#ThrowbackThursday: Brooklyn Technical High School

May 15, 2014

Check out a picture of schoolboys working in the foundry at Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene.

The original plans for the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument included an observatory and a rostrum, which were never built. (Image courtesy Images of America: Fort Greene by Howard Pitsch)

FG/CH News, Neighbors

#ThrowbackThursday: The Original Plans for the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

May 8, 2014

This week’s #ThrowbackThursday is an image of the original design of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music was first built in 1861 on Montague Street and moved to Fort Greene in 1908. (Photo by Irving Underhill, courtesy the

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#ThrowbackThursday: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1910

May 1, 2014

Get a look at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s current building, built five years after its first location, built in 1861 on Montague Street, burned to the ground.

The Atlantic Avenue elevated train station around 1895. (Photo courtesy the

FG/CH News, Transportation

#ThrowbackThursday: The Atlantic Avenue Station in 1895

April 24, 2014

Check out a photograph of the elevated train station at Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue.

The Masonic Temple on Clermont Avenue at Lafayette Avenue, built in 1907. (Photo courtesy the Museum of the City of New York)

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#ThrowbackThursday: The Masonic Temple on Clermont Avenue

April 17, 2014

Check out an early 20th century photograph of the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in this week’s #ThrowbackThursday post.

Women making national and signal flags in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the U.S. Navy during World War II. (Photo courtesy the National Archives.)

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#ThrowbackThursday: Women Working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1941

April 10, 2014

Check out a photograph of women working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II in this week’s #ThrowbackThursday.