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Vol 83 p87-88 Eagle April 24, 49

"Remember when steam trains ran on the overhead tracks on Myrtle Ave and how about that Sunday afternoon when there was a collision between two trains at the intersection of Hudson Ave and Myrtle. I still have a souvenir of that incident, a piece of coal that fell in the street after the collision"

(also store by store description of downtown part)

Vol 82 page 34 How it got its name

"Myrtle Ave the first Brooklyn thoroughfare to be graded and paved, got its name from the fact that myrtle hedges grew in the area."

A dictionary of the underworld by Eric Partridge Bonanza Book 1961 p.696

streets = Freedom (convicts term, cat.1920, American)

hit the streets = to become a free man (convict term, cat. 1933)

hit the street = to become a prostitute (cat. 1933, American)

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Vol 4 p67

Willoughby House at corner of Myrtle and Laurence once part of old Willoughby homestead (was moved there)

(house in original position) [arrow pointing to paragraph below]

"For many years this was the only house between what is now the corners of Myrtle Ave and Johnson Street, and Fort Greene, and as the waters of the Wallabout washed the very shores of Fort Greene, so the highway known as Myrtle Avenue was a venturesome bit of swamp land for the entire distance"

Eagle Dec 15, 1912

vol 4 p97 Old Whitman Landmarks

"In the meantime Walt's father had moved from the Adams Street house to 106 Myrtle Ave where he built a substantial frame structure containing a store on the street floor."

(number changed to 110)

"Here Walt took up his abode after his return from journeying throughout Long Island and once