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cross streets were unopened and the land on either side of Myrtle Ave was some ten or twelve feet above the grade. North of Myrtle Ave, between Adelphi Street and Vanderbilt Ave were corn fields and orchards."

Vol 2 page 124 Eagle Nov 1, 1914

(1854) - "Myrtle was paved as far as Nostrand Avenue beyond which point it was a turnpike."

Village of Wallabout:

west by Clason Ave

east by Nostrand

north by Flushing

south by Dekall[?]

Vol 2 page 132 Eagle Aug 6, 1882

"Myrtle Ave was so called from the hedge of myrtle that adorned its site long before the street was thought of. It was the first thoroughfare that was graded and paved, and was the pride of the oldtime Brooklynite.

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"Uncle Billy" Beard received the contract and did the work."

Vol 3 - The Standard Union Rec 30 1906 page 57

The first horse cars -

"A boy named Patrik Grant hanging on the side of a Myrtle Ave car, when near Graham Ave. lost his footing and, falling, came in contact with the wheels sustaining a compound fracture of the right leg."

May 2.69

Theory on film by Siegfried Kracauer

Oxford University Press 1960

p IX (photography) "is conceivably animated by a desire to picture transient material life, life at its most ephemeral. Street crowds involuntary gestures, and other fleeting impressions..."