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into the older part of the city. - On the south side of Myrtle Ave there were no pavements, and none of the streets were cut through except Bedford and Classon Avenues, which had been ploughed up and leveled like a country road. Such was the state of the streets when I removed my family here on Oct 8, 1842."

p 142

"At this time (1842) the greater part of the population resided north of Myrtle avenue, for there was but one house on the south side of that street from Division avenue to Fort Greene and that was the large house now standing on the corner of Myrtle and Classon avenues, the corner of which was occupied by Mr. Evans as a drug store and now is a meat shop. At that time the whole space from Division avenue to Fort Greene, and from Myrtle avenue to Jamaica turnpike, being a tract of ground about two miles in length, from east to west, and one mile in breadth from north to south contained only thirty houses."

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"The population in 1842 was 1,679 and in 1850 it was 6,371. (the seventh ward, village of Wallabout)

p 298

"In 1853 February the Myrtle Avenue and Jamaica Plank Road Company was incorporated with a capital of $25,000 which was subsequently increased to 55,000."

Clippings from Historical Society May 6, 1969

Tribune April 2, 1958 Vol 118 p 43

"The last fifty wooden cars of the city's rapid transit system, operating on the Myrtle Ave BMT line, in Brooklyn and Owens, will finally give way to their metal successors on April 11 after fifty-four years of service. They will be replaced by sixty rehabilitated cars from the old Third Ave. elevated line. The Transit Authority said it planned to sell the wooden cars to the highest bidder."

Vol 156 page 139 World Telegram June 2, 1965

"In the shadows of the El drug addiction flourishes, muggers are common, slums are