The Parish of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1864, an offshoot of Most Holy Trinity Church on Montrose Avenue.
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Founded in 1806, the First Methodist Episcopal congregation was the first to be founded in what would become the Village of Williamsburgh, and the second in the Town of Bushwick. The first church for the congregation was constructed in 1808 on North 2nd Street (Metropolitan Avenue) and Fifth (Driggs) Street.
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The parish of St. Patrick was founded in the early 1840s, prior to the establishment of the Diocese of Brooklyn.
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In 1912 Harry Horowitz and Louis Rosenberg went on the lam at 756 Woodward Avenue in Ridgewood. They were captured in part due to the outdoor movie theater located next door.
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The Pacific Street Methodist Episcopal Church was constructed in 1851 at the northwest corner of Pacific and Clinton Streets. The congregation was established in 1844 and for the first few years worshiped in the former South Brooklyn Presbyterian Church, located on Pacific between Court and Clinton Streets.
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Classon Primitive Methodist Church was located at 152 Classon Avenue, between Park and Myrtle (not particularly near Lafayette). The church was organized in 1883 and based on historic maps appears to have been constructed about 1886-87. It was demolished sometime before 1916. John J. Lockett was the pastor in 1902.
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Apartment house architects active in the 1910s to 1920s. Springsteen was also associated with the firm Springsteen & Goldhammer.
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1917. Designed by Sass & Springsteen for S. Kaplan & Son, owner and builder, of 750 Driggs Avenue.
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"Union Pl. 70 n. of NW cor. Kent St."
Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 375, May 22, 1875), 361.