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August 8, 2011
Then and Now Thursday: De-Mapped on Flatbush
Here's Park Slope
Flatbush, Fifth Avenue and what used to be Pacific Street, before and after.
There are very few instances of streets being entirely wiped off the map in our neighborhood. In the South Slope, we've got the parts of 17th Street displaced for the Prospect Expressway, and in the far North Slope, parts of Fifth Avenue, Dean Street, and Pacific Street have been de-mapped, all within the past couple years, for construction of the Barclay's Center.
In the above 1914 photo, we see one of those rare views that simply does not exist anymore. It's looking northeast, at the tail end of Fifth Avenue from Flatbush, toward Dean Street. Joseph Kaiser's Clothier, Furnisher, and Hatter flanks a bicycle shop on Fifth, and a butcher shop named Berger & Son Company "Of America" is on Dean.
NoLandGrab: For the record, no portion of Dean Street has been de-mapped, "only" Fifth Avenue and Pacific Street.
Posted by eric at August 8, 2011 11:05 AM