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DR. ROBERT M. FALES COLLECTION
Top to bottom, left to right: Works Progress Adminis-tration
workers wait outside Fulton House on North
Fourth to receive their weekly check in the 1930s. A
fire wagon and crew outside Old Station 3, which was
built in 1907. The Brooklyn Theater was built as a
vaudeville theater in 1914, but it was showing movies
as early as 1915. School children walking down North
Fourth in February 1984. North Fourth in February
1984. Lloyd and Gerald Brown play checkers at Nixon
and Brown in the Brooklyn neighborhood in July
1984. An undated photo of the steel trestle bridge
over the once vibrant rail bed. Trains passing under
North Fourth on the tracks between Brunswick and
Campbell were a common sight.
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between North Third and
North Fourth, bounded
by Brunswick and
Hanover streets.
“The turning point
of the redevelopment of
North Fourth took place
in 1999, when we bought
the junkyard,” Nathans
says. “As a catalyst, that
was the biggest thing that
took place to begin the
momentum.”
Reclamation began
through a combina-tion
of renovating
existing buildings
and urban infill,
developing vacant or
underused parcels
with an eye toward
the future without
forgetting the past.
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