Another glimpse back into Carroll Gardens' past with this wonderful photo of the corner of Smith Street and 9th Street in 1930...and the same corner today. The one obvious change is that the subway had not yet been built and therefore, the Culver Viaduct structure is missing.
If you look carefully at the foreground of the photo, you can see that on both the left and the right side of 9th Street, there are still brownstones, which were taken down to make way for the viaduct.
Also, at the corner, the small house with a pitched roof at # 478 Smith Street no longer stands. Just recently, a rather ugly new structure designed by Henry Radusky of Bricolage Designs has taken its place on than spot.
Now take a look at the same corner in the 1950's, exactly twenty years later. The street corner is almost identical to what it looks like right now.
I love the trolley cars. Don't you?
