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Students protest on Brooklyn College campus, ca. 1980’s.

Derby Liquors, the Jentz Luncheonette, and the U.S. Army Recruiting Station no longer hold down this corner of the Junction, having been replaced by a Porta Bella menswear store on the Nostrand side, and by Rite Aid, Foot Locker, and Subway on…

The Junction Bar and Shanahan’s Café were popular hangouts on Flatbush Avenue. Both bars had entrances on Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues, and the Pizza & Salad shop that today occupies the spot where Shanahan’s stood into the 1980’s still has an…

Demonstration at the Woolworth Store on Flatbush Avenue, looking north from Hillel Place.

Close-up view of the Junction, looking north.

Aerial view of the Junction, ca. 1954. Germania Place is on the lower left (with the millinery shop on the corner), Flatbush Avenue runs diagonally from left to right, and Nostrand Avenue runs from the upper right to the bottom center of the image.

Undated photo of the Ditmas house.

From 1827 to 1961, the Ditmas house stood on the land where SUBO now sits. This photo is of a painting by Professor Robert Barrett of the Brooklyn College Art Department. The painting itself can be found on the fifth floor of SUBO, opposite the…

From left to right, Mr. & Mrs. R.G. Armstrong (longtime caretaker of Ditmas House), Mr. & Mrs. Charles A.Ditmas, and Jacqueline Loughrey.

Mr. Charles A. Ditmas raising the first flag on the site of new Brooklyn College.