Neighborhood Landmarks

The clock empire that built a factory one block away, survived a catastrophic fire, ran for fifty years, and shipped its machinery to the Soviet Union.

One of Brooklyn's oldest bars — opened the year Prohibition ended, served men only until Shirley MacLaine ordered a beer, and still pours the 32-ounce container.

The buried stream that fed the Gowanus — paved over as the neighborhood built up, never stopped flowing, and still floods the streets it used to drain.

The park gate named for two Brooklyn best friends who enlisted together and died three weeks apart in France. It's a circle, not a square.

The movie palace at the park gate: opened as the Sanders in 1928, dark for two decades, reborn as the Pavilion, and gutted again into a Nitehawk dine-in cinema.

New York City's oldest concrete building — a showroom whose patented French concrete built St. Patrick's arches, now stranded beside a Whole Foods.

A private Quaker burial ground older than Prospect Park — the only private land in the park, where Montgomery Clift is buried in a grave they won't identify.

The Catholic parish at the top of the slope — the church behind so many of the marriages in this archive.

The neighborhood's own stop on the Culver Line — the F and G station that connected Windsor Terrace to the rest of the city.

The neighborhood branch of the Brooklyn Public Library — small, beloved, and a civic anchor generation after generation.