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The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburg was incorporated April 19, 1864. Its first home was the basement of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank. Within a couple of years, it had relocated to 3-5 Broadway. By about 1874, the bank had erected its own building at 52 Broadway. In 1903, the bank moved yet again, this time Havemeyer Street fronting on the then-new Williamsburg Bridge Plaza.
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From "Scientific American", a historic bird's eye of Charles Pratt's Astral Oil Works on Bushwick Inlet. For Almost 150 years, the property has been used for petroleum refining and storage.
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The First Methodist Church of Williamsburgh was organized in 1806, making it the oldest ecclesiastical organization in the village of Williamsburgh, and the second oldest church in the Town of Bushwick
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Building constructed in 1860 as the Lee Avenue Reformed Dutch Church on land donated by heirs of General Jeremiah Johnson. First organized in 1852 and formally established in 1854, the Reformed Dutch congregation did not pan out and by 1871 the church was taken over by Congregationalists and renamed the Lee Avenue Congregational Church.
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Church was dedicated by Bishop Molloy on July 4, 1932. Church was a mission of Sacred Heart parish, Cutchogue.