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Navy Yard Newsies: 1903

Navy Yard Newsies: 1903

Circa 1903. "Sands Street entrance, Brooklyn Navy Yard." With a flock of newsies, and Lewis Hine nowhere in sight. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

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DUMBO Tracks.

Those weren't trolley tracks on Plymouth Street. They were from a very short line called the Jay Street Connecting Railroad. It switched freight cars between buildings and the piers.

 

The Navy Yard Today

This is now the entrance to a vehicle impound lot run by the NYPD. Sadly, the entrance buildings look just about ready to fall apart any day now.

 

Sands St. entrance

The entrance structures still stand, albeit with fugly alterations:


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The Brooklyn Dodgers

And the newsies would be among those who dodged the trolleys in Brooklyn.

 

Tracks

Those trolley tracks can still be seen on Plymouth Street in the neighborhood now called DUMBO.

 

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