Photo of the Day: The Junction in 1914

(Photo: William Davis Hassler via the New-York Historical Society.)

A 1914 view of Flatbush & Nostrand. This is looking north: the street on the upper left of this photo is Hillel Place, and that beautiful building you can just see the edge of is still there, filled with various small businesses.

I spent several minutes just zooming and checking out what the various people in this photo are doing. We’ve got some ladies sporting parasols, people boarding the Nostrand Ave trolley, and I think someone drinking out of a watering fountain, but I can’t be sure. Can you imagine just waltzing across the center of this intersection today, like one of the parasol ladies is doing??