Engine Company Number 1 (the Northside Roosters) was first organized in 1834. The former firehouse at 147 Metropolitan Avenue was constructed circa 1861, but its use as a firehouse was very short-lived.
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Parochial school for St. Benedict Parish, Brooklyn. Constructed 1894, designed by Francis J. Berlenbach, Jr.
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St. Benedict parish was established in 1853 as a German national parish in "New Brooklyn". The church was designed by William Schickel and completed in 1874.
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Designed the Bellrose Ballroom at 1391 Bedford, originally built as Chevrolet auto showroom. 1918. Also described as a builder.
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Partnership of Henry J. Nurick and (probably) Abraham Farber. Responsible for Congregation Men of Justice, Brownsville. Office at 1028 Gates Avenue in 1912.
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Founded in 1909, Congregation Men of Justice (Anshe Zedek) was constructed in 1913 to the designs of architects Farber & Nurick.
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St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church was a German congregation, established in February, 1864 in a tenement house on North 3rd Street between Kent and Wythe.
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"An architect, died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, March 11, 1911, aged fifty-two. He was born in Brooklyn.
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M.A.C.C. Arms #2, built by Metropolitan Avenue Construction Company. MACC was founded by Crescenzo Simonelli, a builder active in East Williamsburg starting in 1905. Together, Simonelli & Kunzi developed a number of buildings in East Williamsburg in the late 1920s.
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Kunzi was an architect active in East Williamsburg, Maspeth and Long Island City from the 1910s through the 1940s. In 1920, he ran for state senate on the Republican line, narrowly losing to the Democratic incumbent.