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Images- Williamsburg Brooklyn Washington Plaza |
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S. 4th St. to Broadway, New to Havemeyer Sts. |
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Renaissance Revival |
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plaza |
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Formerly the ganglion for half of Brooklyn's trolley empire, the Plaza is now a depot for nondescript buses belching forth diesel fumes between runs. Some of the old sheds and a signal tower remain, but the web of overhead copper wires is now only a memory Furthermore, the space is cut into pieces by the elevated subway and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which slice through it with abandon. The forecourt for the Ukrainian Cathedral, in the plaza's northwest corner, is formally executed and the only part of the whole deserving of the title "plaza:" It contains, among disintegrating Renaissance Revival ornaments, a fine verdigris equestrian statue, George Washington at Valley Forge (Henry M. Shrady, 1906). |
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| with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York", |