© Frank H. Jump
I’ve been digging through my Ektachrome and digital archive and found this shot, which was taken seven years ago of the same wall in Williamsburg as posted on December 8, 2007.
© Frank H. Jump
Brooklyn
New York Frame & Picture Co – Williamsburg, Brooklyn – December 2000
College Glen – A Flatbush Neighborhood East of Brooklyn College
New York Avenue & Glenwood Road
New York Avenue & Avenue H
Avenue H & East 32nd Street
Avenue H & East 32nd Street looking toward the Junction.
The Junction © Frank H. Jump
When Vincenzo and I moved into the Flatbush Junction, I noticed the College Glen signs around the neighborhood but did not see the civilian patrol. I’ve done some Internet searches but not until recently have I found anything. Fortunately the New York Times has been diligently archiving their entire history of articles on the web. Here is a snippet that mentions this sliver of Flatbush.
PERSPECTIVES: New Condos in Flatbush; Tapping the Market in Central Brooklyn
MEANWHILE, the single- and two-family home market has also picked up, aided in part by the home-loan program run by Neighborhood Housing Services. The East Flatbush office has provided below-market loans for 89 home renovations, mainly in an area east of Brooklyn College called College Glen.
”It’s very clear that in this part of the area the strategy has worked,” said Philip Gallagher, chairman of Neighborhood Housing Services of East Flatbush. ”Now there is an enormous amount of new private investment that has nothing to do with us.”
Neighborhood Housing Services is planning to seek community-development block-grant funds to expand its service area to a needier northwestern area of the district that it has named Clarendon Meadows. This is an area bounded by Clarkson Avenue on the north, Cortelyou Avenue on the south, and Brooklyn Avenue and Bedford Avenue on the east and west.
Contest: What are the boundaries of College Glen?
PS: No hairsplitting!
Brooklyn Junction's Eli & Myself @ Starbucks on Hillel Place Talking About The Junction…
Eli (Brooklyn Junction) & Me
… & Greater Flatbush, education, the ramifications of gentrification, childbirth, collaborations, passions, music and other obsessions.
Flatlands Reformed Church Cemetery – Flatlands, Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump
A colleague and myself took our after-school photography program to the Flatlands Reformed Church Cemetery on Kings Highway for a photo-shoot. This is the same organization as Marble Collegiate and one of the oldest churches in Brooklyn.
Founded in 1654, Flatlands’ tradition and history is firmly grounded in the history of Dutch immigration and settlement and Dutch Reformed liturgy and theology. The Flatlands Reformed Church shares the distinction of being the oldest church in Brooklyn with Old First Reformed Church in Park Slope and the Flatbush Reformed Church on Flatbush and Church Avenues. The three congregations were founded on February 9, 1654. There are only two other Reformed Church congregations that are older than those in Brooklyn – the Collegiate Church in Manhattan and the North Dutch Church in Albany (later renamed First Church).
Walking through the tree-filtered late Autumn sunshine, you will recognize many of the names as street names in Brooklyn (i.e. Wyckoff). The sanctuary is a beautiful setting for the fall foliage and there are still a few roses in bloom late this November. Unfortunately there has been some vandalism.
Above is a marriage announcement for the same Teunis J. Bergen that was buried on February 27, 1922 (one of the later burials amongst many from the late 18th century and earlier). Below is a map of the Netherlands from around the time the first settlers came to Brooklyn (Breukelen).
