
Captured Moment: The Preschool
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As kinderlach throughout Boro Park return to cheder, we take a glimpse at a Boro Park edifice that has served as a cheder.... read more

Captured Moment: Saltser and Weinsier Plumbing and Heating
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This week’s captured moment takes us to an industrial building somewhere on 38th Street which continues to stand to this.... read more

Captured Moment: The Birth Center
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Dr. Mininberg’s maternity hospital was a place where many children in Boro Park of yesteryear were born.
Can.... read more

Captured Moment: Wollock Carpenters General Contractor
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This week’s captured moment takes us to the offices of Wollock’s, located on one of the lower streets near the lower.... read more

Captured Moment: Park Memorial Chapel
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This week’s captured moment takes us to the lower avenues of Boro Park where, in 1940, the Park Memorial Chapel existed. The.... read more

Captured Moment: The Shul That Went up in Flames
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As we approach Tish B’Av—a time when Hashem poured out his wrath on “wood and stones” of the Beis Hamikdosh, we.... read more

Captured Moment: An Important Home
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Our featured landmark this week is a home in Boro Park’s 50’s, near 16th Avenue, which once served as the home of a.... read more

Captured Moment: Bay Ridge Savings Bank
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This towering bank continues to serve Boro Park in the same function—a bank—albeit by a different.... read more

Captured Moment: Excellent Sweet Shop
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This week’s captured moment focuses on a sweet shop on one of Boro Park’s lower avenues and lower streets. Today, it.... read more

Captured Moments: An Iconic Entrance
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The entrance being constructed here about forty years ago leads into one of Boro Park’s largest and most iconic shuls. It was.... read more

Captured Moment: Selling Seforim on a Boro Park Street
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It was circa 1990, and a Yid was sitting in front of a Boro Park home, seeking to place the sefer Sifsei Avrohom into.... read more

Captured Moment: The School and the Hall
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This week’s moment features a very famous building in the center of Boro Park, which serves as an institution of.... read more

Captured Moment: Serving as a Thirteenth Avenue Retail Landmark to Close to a Century
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This week's featured Captured Moment is today a food retail store somewhere on 13th Avenue. As we can tell, it sold goods.... read more

Captured Moment: When the Vintage Car Brought Back Memories of Yore
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A number of weeks ago, a vintage 1930 Buick Series 60 Sedan passed by one of the lower avenues in Boro Park, passing.... read more

Captured Moment: LBJ and RFK in Boro Park
The year was 1964, and President Lyndon B. Johnson was campaigning for reelection, along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the streets of Boro Park..... read more

Captured Moment: The Rosh Yeshiva and the Chazzan Resided Here
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This week’s “captured moment’ brings you a towering apartment building in the center of Boro Park which was home to one.... read more