JULY 4TH ON HIGHLAND PARK SLOPE (1914)

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Sunnyside Avenue (btwn Hendrix and Barbey Streets) on 4th of July in 1914.
Sunnyside Avenue (btwn Hendrix and Barbey Streets) in Highland Park Slope on the 4th of July in 1914.

“Highland Park Slope” was a ritzy name. It was the moniker that the realtors selected for the Arlington Avenue section of East New York around 1900.

The name never really caught on. Perhaps it was just too similar to Park Slope.

Today the neighborhood is known as Highland Park and the greater area has taken the moniker of its northern cemetery neighbor – Cypress Hills.

Today, Sunnyside Avenue runs east-west just south of the Jackie Robinson and the maze of cemeteries.

The same Sunnyside Avenue today.
The same Sunnyside Avenue today.
The white arrow shows the location of Sunnyside Avenue.
The white arrow shows the location where the above pictures were taken on Sunnyside Avenue.


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