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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Sat Jul 8 02:02:32 2017, in response to Re: 2 photos of the Park St (Ave) el in Brooklyn, posted by BRT on Fri Jul 7 23:27:41 2017. Hello BRT (poole)Thanks also - and YOU are also correct !!! It appears that likely the corner seen in the old B&W photo IS Prospect Street crossing Washington. To the left (open space along the left El columns in old photo) out of view is where the stone wall Brooklyn Bridge approach curved to run parallel along Washington Street just behind the photographer. The SCENE TODAY has those THREE corners of ancient buildings completely gone --- the ones at the right of the El stairway to the corner of Prospect St, thus long ago removed now as needing the land for the 1950's widened and re-routed Brooklyn Bridge Approach lanes to parallel Adams Street. The ones just across Prospect on both side of Washington long ago removed as part of the BQE and one of its off ramps. A provision was made for a proposed street to cross UNDER the bridge stone approach walls. Its old stone approach walls were separated by an original steel beams short bridge providing a space for a planned street to pass below it at the intersection of Fulton St, Prospect Street and Henry Street, that underpass street which was never built -- that short steel original span exists today. You can plainly see it here in this Google View looking towards the East River along Fulton Street along the south side of the Brooklyn Bridge approach. HERE IS THE LINK TO THE GOOGLE VIEW BELOW: Image - Underpass for street not built Here ALSO is a map I found from 1898 showing downtown Brooklyn with the original Bridge approach.  Note the red circle I drew on the map. The Red Arrow is where the stairway end would be in the photo. NOTE on this 1898 map that it CONFIRMS that there IS NOT, as I IN ERROR posted just earlier, a small street crossing Washington between and parallel to York and Prospect. I suspect that the original construction steel beams overpass seen in my Google photo was an opening possibly for a street planned to connect from Fulton to either York, or Washington. Regardless, the B&W photo image seems to shorten or compress the distance from that point on Washington St., just beyond Prospect, north downhill to York from just past Prospect. Perhaps it is a telephoto view. Look at the drive-thru view via Google and its seems a quite longer stretch between those two point. However, combined, we collectively have solved to pinpoint the exact location of the photo of which there is absolutely no trace today of what is seen in it ! Regards - Joe F |
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