Pictures of Barnes Nobles block before 1998?

yankeefan

Anyone have any pictures of 7th ave btwn 5th & 6th st before that B&N building went up in 1998, when the whole block was just a big parking lot for Methodist Hospital?

stacey

Yes I do - do you need them for something special or do you just want them posted?

hamilton

You should be looking for photos of the houses where families were dislodged by the Methodist to create that parking lot , which was later developed for Corp use by Barnes & Noble along with Rite Aid.

raw

Hamilton wrote: You should be looking for photos of the houses where families were dislodged by the Methodist to create that parking lot , which was later developed for Corp use by Barnes & Noble along with Rite Aid.

What year was the parking lot created?

yankeefan

stacey wrote: Yes I do - do you need them for something special or do you just want them posted?

Nothing special. I was just talking about it to someone who just moved to Brooklyn a few years ago, and he didn’t believe me that so recently that Barnes & Nobles space was just a parking lot. It’d be nice if I had the picture to show him, but also since it’s only in my memory I’d be curious to see a photo of it again.

yankeefan

raw wrote: [quote=Hamilton]You should be looking for photos of the houses where families were dislodged by the Methodist to create that parking lot , which was later developed for Corp use by Barnes & Noble along with Rite Aid.

Okay. Those houses were before my time, but if you have any picures I'd be curious to see them.

scarlett

Yo, Skankee fan, it's Barnes and Noble. Not nobles.

longtimesloper

I have lived here since 1987 and don't remember any houses being there-when were there houses there?

filmlover44

I moved here in 87 too. It wouldn't surprise me if houses were torn down for the parking lot.

dw438

Parking lot dated from the '80's or before.
Nothing special there.

hamilton

They were walk up buildings that were either three or four stories each ,I don't remember the year they were taken down but it had to be in the late 70's, I'm going to talk to some of the people who were in the neighborhood at that time and get an exact date.

yankeefan

scarlett wrote: Yo, Skankee fan, it's Barnes and Noble. Not nobles.

What are you? A Red Sox fan?

stacey

YankeeFan wrote: [quote=stacey]Yes I do - do you need them for something special or do you just want them posted?

Nothing special. I was just talking about it to someone who just moved to Brooklyn a few years ago, and he didn’t believe me that so recently that Barnes & Nobles space was just a parking lot. It’d be nice if I had the picture to show him, but also since it’s only in my memory I’d be curious to see a photo of it again.

Cool I can scan a few from my HS days at John Jay -
(No one better make fun of my HS fashion though )

carnivore

stacey wrote: (No one better make fun of my HS fashion though )

I cannot wait to see you in full cugette regalia!

stacey

Carnivore wrote: [quote=stacey](No one better make fun of my HS fashion though )

I cannot wait to see you in full cugette regalia!

Ha - these will be from my homegirl days

filmlover44

stacey wrote: [quote=YankeeFan][quote=stacey]Yes I do - do you need them for something special or do you just want them posted?

Nothing special. I was just talking about it to someone who just moved to Brooklyn a few years ago, and he didn’t believe me that so recently that Barnes & Nobles space was just a parking lot. It’d be nice if I had the picture to show him, but also since it’s only in my memory I’d be curious to see a photo of it again.

Cool I can scan a few from my HS days at John Jay -
(No one better make fun of my HS fashion though )

Post them here!

eggcream

Love these, especially Eighth Avenue looking southwest to Fourth Street, c.1900.

http://brooklynpix.com/catalog36f.php?locality_no=12601

hamilton

I spoke with Joe Ferris who was our Assembly Man in the 70's, as well as a Park Slope Historian and he said the residential building on 7th avenue were torn down by the Methodist in the mid sixties to build a parking lot, which is now the home of Barnes & Noble

stacey

Ok I thought I had more but here are two where you see the parking lot

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/stacey0768/johnjay2.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/stacey0768/johnjay.jpg

booklaw

Classic photos!!

sweet tea

aw! i was all psyched to make fun of you, but you're adorable!

although...is that a mullet?

stacey

sweet tea wrote: aw! i was all psyched to make fun of you, but you're adorable!

Thanks

sweet tea wrote: although...is that a mullet?

:oops: Yes it is (it was all the rage then - cough, cough)

carnivore

Awesome! And that jacket?



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yankeefan

Thanks for posting!