A Moment Back In Time: The Bakery On Columbia Street, Now Long Gone

The bakery at 230 Columbia Street back in the winter of 1948

The same spot on Columbia Street today

Columbia Street at Union Street, where # 230 would have stood.

How cool is this great black and white photograph taken of neighborhood residents and policemen on Columbia Street? This winter scene took place in 1948 and was taken in front of a bakery store at #230 Columbia St., between Union and President Streets.

The bakery and the actual building is long gone, unfortunately. It was most probably taken down shortly after 1975, when the city began digging a trench for a sewer line at Columbia and President Street, to connect to the Red Hook Sewer treatment plant. According to the South Brooklyn Network, during the excavation, "water seeped into the constuction trench. As workers pumped it out, the water table fell, weakening the foundations of nearby buildings. Two buildings collapsed, and one man was killed. 33 buildings were demolished as a safety measure, and many remaining businesses and residents were pulled out."

Do any of the old timers in the neighborhood remember this bakery? What was its name. Would love to find out more about it.

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