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Subject: [NYBROOKLYN] Re: NYBROOKLYN-D Digest V00 #433
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:38:54 EDT
In response to Cindy Amrhein:
Cindy,
I grew up in Flatbush. I lived on Troy Ave. just south of Snyder. It was a
dead-end street because of Holy Cross Cemetery. My cousin lived at Clarkson
and Rogers, so I used to take the bus there frequently when I was a kid.
Clarkson and Rogers is just west of the Kings County Hospital complex. I left
there when I was only 16 in 1969. My sisters and I did a genealogy trip
there this past October and visited some of the old neighborhoods. The Kings
County Hospital complex is still there. I know one part was a mental health
area. My cousin's house at Clarkson and Rogers is even still there. It is a
little bungalow type house in the middle of a lot of tall apartment
buildings. I was sure it would be torn down by now, but it was there and it
turned out that the people living there bought the house from my cousin in
the late 1970's or early 1980's. We had a great trip and even got to go in
the house we grew up in on Troy Ave. By the way, Troy is effectively 44th
st. I have a current Brooklyn map that I picked up while we were there. The
area where the Pen. was is all housing. It is basically the Crown Heights
section of Brooklyn. That was one of the areas that we checked out, as my
parents lived in an apartment on Carrol St. when they were first married.
The Crown Heights Hospital, which is where my older sisters were born, is no
longer there.
The area for the pen. is one square block. Looking at the 1891 map, the Alms
House, etc is now the Kings County Hospital Center. You can check out a
recent map at the NY City Transit authority. Go to maps and look for the
Brooklyn bus map. It's not quite the detail you may want, but it's not bad.
You will need Adobe Acrobat to look at it though. The web site is:
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/busbkln.pdf
I hope that this info helps you.
Jayne Paul Poplin
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