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Navy Yard Newsies: 1903
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 10/15/2008 - 9:01pm.
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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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Submitted by timeandagainphoto on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 7:28pm.
Updating my previous modern view (+101 below), here is the same view from April of 2011.
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Submitted by timeandagainphoto on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 9:30am.
This is the same view from November of 2004. A portion of the wall and turret can be seen behind the truck.
DUMBO Tracks.
Submitted by George D on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 8:44pm.
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
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 12:10pm.
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
Submitted by Mikey D. on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 10:43am.
The entrance structures still stand, albeit with fugly alterations:
The Brooklyn Dodgers
Submitted by gcreedon on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 6:45am.
And the newsies would be among those who dodged the trolleys in Brooklyn.
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