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In the mid 1920s Plaza Street, which had been developed as part of Park Slope's "Gold Coast" neighborhood, was mainly composed of very large single-family mansions. In 1925, with Brooklyn real estate booming, the first high-rise apartment building on Plaza Street was built, 1 Plaza Street West, at the corner of Plaza Street West and Flatbush ...
Park Slope is a neighborhood in South Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south. Generally, the neighborhood is divided into three sections ...
The 14th Regiment Armory, also known as the Eighth Avenue Armory and the Park Slope Armory, is a historic National Guard armory building located on Eighth Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets in the South Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, United States.
Park Slope Village was built on a section of condemned land, once known as the Baltic Street Lot. [7] The infamous vacant lot was the result of a 1968 proposal from the Board of Education that called for the clearing of 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) surrounding P.S. 133 to make room for the construction of an "educational park."
July 6, 2005 (4th Ave. between 9th and 10th Sts. Park Slope and Gowanus: Subway station (F and G trains); part of the New York City Subway System MPS : 2: 9th Avenue Station (Dual System BRT)
115–119 Eighth Avenue, also known as the Adams House, is a historic house at Eighth Avenue and Carroll Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City.It was built in 1888 as a double house, and was commissioned by Thomas Adams Jr., who invented the Adams Chiclets automatic vending machine.
John Scioli and then-wife Susan Scioli opened the first Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in 1971. At the time, Park Slope was becoming a popular place for young people but the area did not yet have a strong commercial center. The Sciolis saw an opportunity, starting with a tiny store and building out. [4] Then, in 1974 they opened a ...
Onyx is a multi-member collective that was active in New York City from 1968 through the early 1970s and active intermittently to the present. Its members - Ron Williams, Woody Rainey, Tommy Simpson, Mike Hinge, Bob Buxbaum, Davis Allen, Sheridan Bell and Jack Wells among others—published architectural projects in the form of offset-printed posters or "broadsheets" that were mailed ...