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\n\n“Streetscapes, online<\/a> ” The New York Times, 17 April 1988. by Christopher Gray.<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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Coalition to save Brooklyn’s Long Island Rail Road Terminal Newsletter Cover, circa 1985.<\/p>\n

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Early photograph showing the main entrance to LIRR Terminal, Flatbush Avenue El, 4th Avenue in background, and Hanson Place in the foreground (note the Hanson cab extreme left)<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

\nOpening ceremony of the Long Island Railroad Terminal in 1907, on the roof above main entrance.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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Opening ceremony of the Long Island Railroad Terminal in 1907 taken form the second story across Hanson Place<\/p>\n

(Present location of Williamsburg Savings Bank)<\/p>\n

Note the heads and ball finials at the top of building.<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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Picture of the demolition crew posing for the closing ceremony. <\/p>\n

Note the ball finials (the originals were removed in the 1950’s)<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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1994 photograph showing the detail of the pediment at the top of the main entrance<\/p>\n

(Note the cap stone has already been removed)<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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Architectural humor… In the early eighties I commissioned six duplicate finials and tried to get the M.T.A. to allow them to be installed.<\/p>\n

No!, their response in a word.  IN 1994, when I negotiated my purchased of the main entrance,<\/p>\n

I asked the demolitioncontractor if I could install the ball finials in their six original locations at the top of the main entrance. <\/p>\n

His response was, “sure, as long as they come down the same day.” <\/p>\n

The photograph witnesses part of that day.<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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Photograph showing the completed installation of the duplicate ball finials.  This view is very nearly as it appeared in 1907.<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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Post office occulus (round window). <\/p>\n

Note view of the interior showing light coming through the roof. <\/p>\n

This occulus is one of two and was most recently used as a wading pool surround for my daughter.<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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Interior view of the waiting room with demolition nearly complete. <\/p>\n

Originally there was an eighty by eighty foot skylight above the waiting room and a<\/p>\n

glass floor that illuminated the tracks below.<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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Isometric drawing showing the main entrance at Hanson Place, the two larger secondary<\/p>\n

entrances on Flatbush Avenue, and the two story waiting room.<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

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“LIRR terminal stashed in back yard,” Brooklyn Paper Publications, 5 May 1994.<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n