28 Old Photos Of Williamsburg You've Never Seen Before
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<p>Williamsburg Bridge, View showing Kent Avenue yard âWâ, 20 feet, for âWSSâ to be placed on towers. March 20, 1918. WSS stands for âWar Savings Stamps.â Letters were erected on the south side of the Manhattan tower during World War I.</p>
<p>Construction of Williamsburg Bridge tower, Brooklyn side, looking southeast.1897-1898.</p>
<p>Looking north from Grand Street. February 17, 1929.</p>
<p>Construction of wooden caisson for New East River Bridge (Williamsburg Bridge) tower. April 29, 1897.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Bridge view showing new auto-truck. November 16, 1921.</p>
<p>Construction of wooden shed on pier for construction of Williamsburg Bridge towers. March 26, 1897.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Bridge, new roadway, 22-inch plate put in position on roadway level.</p>
<p>Six-story factory: Finco Dye & Print Works, Leonard & Schole Streets, Brooklyn. (Site of Williamsburg Housing.) 1930-1937.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Bridge Roebling Street Brooklyn Plaza. January 27, 1931.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Bridge subway interior. January 27, 1931.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Bridge, showing accident, interior of trolley car. August 16, 1926.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Bridge, Bedford Avenue newsstand between South 5th and South 6th Streets, general view of damaged stand from South 5th Street end. November 4, 1955.</p>
<p>Waterfront nr. Schaefer Brewing Co. Williamsburg Bridge in background. Parked cars. January 11, 1944.</p>
<p>Schaefer Brewing Co. building in 1916. Elaborate building with eyebrow windows, cornice details, flags flying.</p>
<p>Child Health Station, 142 North 1st Street, Williamsburg-Greenpoint Health Dist., Brooklyn. Boys play in street.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Housing Site. Tenements: Boy on 1st fl. roof of house looks up at woman with 2 children on 3rd fl. of frame building. May 1935.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Bridge [South 5th Street, Brooklyn], view west along center line of 5th Street roadway from Kent Avenue. April 7, 1959.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Houses, Housing Projects, Interiors, July 1937.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Houses, Housing Projects, Interiors, July 1937.</p>
<p>Mayor Ed Koch walking in Williamsburg during transit strike.</p>
<p>Mayor Ed Koch walking across the Williamsburg Bridge during transit strike.</p>
267 Kent
and present day here<p>Kent & Bedford Avenues, Clymer Streets, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, October 31, 1964</p>
<p>Williamsburg Bridge, showing Hebrew day of atonement, people on bridge footwalk. September 30, 1933.</p>
<p>Entrance Williamsburg Bridge from Havemeyer Street. November 25, 1903.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Houses: Looking northwest from Bushwick Avenue & Scholes Street Exteriors nearly complete. July 1937.</p>
<p>Kent Avenue Sewers, fenced enclosure of Williamsburg Steel Production company. October 31, 1958.</p>