Brooklyn postcards

An antique shop on 5th Ave in PS carries B&W posters/photos of BK landmarks, some long gone, like Ebbet's Field. I think that they have some postcards, too... I'm thinking of the shop just south of Union.

bill c wrote: you might try museum store at the brooklyn museum of art.

there's also a brooklyn historical society in brooklyn hgts which is likely to have some.

Good ideas!

I've bought a lot of Brooklyn (Prospect Park, GAP, etc.) postcards on Ebay for pretty reasonable prices ($5-7 for an early 20th century color card) if you want to go the vintage route.

I even scored an 8" x 10" b/w postcard of the Williamsburgh Bank in Fort Greene and an actual ceramic bank of the Williamsburgh Bank that was a give-away in the early/mid-20th century (even the Brooklyn Historical Society had never seen one of these) for under $20.

I bought a bunch of frames at Target, and now my living room walls are a mini Brooklyn museum. Home decorating tips on the cheap via PH!

sterling2000 wrote: ...an actual ceramic bank of the Williamsburgh Bank that was a give-away in the early/mid-20th century (even the Brooklyn Historical Society had never seen one of these) for under $20.

Funny that you mention that- the antique store that I'd mentioned has a little, ceramic Williamsburgh Bank... it looks like it was a desktop pen holder- it had a little pen sheath-thing on the left side, I think...