Hamilton Avenue, east side, at Smith Street, showing plant No. 1 of the Devoe and Raynolds Company, peint manufacturers. The building was demolished later in the year to facilitate the widening of the avenue as part of the Belt Parkway....

Down the Gowanus  is a modern folk  song by Steve Suffet. The Gowanus Canal is a man-made industrial water way built and streightened in the 1860s from an existing creek.  The Gowanus has played a valuable role in Brooklyn's...

6l to 73 Lorraine Street, north side, between Columbis and Hicks Streets, viewing northeastward across the S. E. corner of Lorraine and Columbia Streets and shwwing several old houses that were later razed to make way for the erection of the Red...

From the caption on the reverse of the image: Bush Street, north side, east from a point west of Hicks Street (seen in the foreground) showing an area soon to be demolished because of the Federal grants making possible the Red Hook slum clearance...

Henry Street, north from Hamilton Avenue. The houses on the east side of Henry Street were demolished for the widening of Hamilton Avenue and its reconstruction into Brooklyn's northerly extension of the Belt Parkway. In the center background...

Henry Street, north from Hamilton Avenue. The houses on the east side of Henry Street were demolished for the widening of Hamilton Avenue and its reconstruction into Brooklyn's northerly extension of the Belt Parkway. In the center background...

Henry Street, north from Hamilton Avenue. The houses on the east side of Henry Street were demolished for the widening of Hamilton Avenue and its reconstruction into Brooklyn's northerly extension of the Belt Parkway. In the center background...

Henry Street, north from Hamilton Avenue. The houses on the east side of Henry Street were demolished for the widening of Hamilton Avenue and its reconstruction into Brooklyn's northerly extension of the Belt Parkway. In the center background...