CROPSEY AVENUE, NO. 2442
At Harway Avenue, between Bay 37th Street and 25th Avenue, Bath Beach
OCTOBER 27, 1936. ABBOTT FILE 176

This ramshackle row of cheaply made houses lay farther from the beach than Abbott's other Cropsey Avenue sites. They had been vacant since 1933, when Cropsey Avenue was straightened.

Abbott composed this photograph skillfully, balancing the diagonal formed by the houses' two pyramidal towers with that formed by the Cropsey Avenue telephone poles. She also included the entire fence bearing the Cropsey Avenue Methodist Church's message to the faithful: "Would you want to live in a churchless, Godless nation? If not then be loyal to your naborhood (sic) church."

Shortly after Abbott's visit, the row was demolished, and a new street, Bay 38th Street, was extended through the site and lined with apartment buildings.

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