Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Brooklyn

new vs. old coords for this list

SEWilco and perhaps others went through some trouble to add decimal latitude and longitude coordinates to the two column table in this list, i believe based off of National Register Information System (NRIS) data. I just added a new 5 or so column table, out of the Elkman county-list table generator, which is also NRIS data, but in Degrees-Minutes-Second format. The data should be mostly the same. Can i delete the old table? doncram (talk) 03:02, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

old coords table

Moving the old coords table from article to here, so that a new Google map link in the article can display the new coords without conflicts. doncram (talk) 22:33, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Moving them, further, to Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/List of Registered Historic Places in Kings County, New York/Old coords, to allow talk here. doncram (talk) 18:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Pictureless

I should have known months ago about this article. I can't believe almost all these places have no Wikipix. This year alone I photographed almost half of them. Many were spoiled by newbie ignorance, and the majority had no Wikipedia article, so one way and the other I didn't upload them. Others can be found in their articles or in neighborhood articles such as Park Slope or the subway station articles for Culver Line and so forth. For me it's not a big priority and I hope others will search out photos that I and others have Wikilated, and install appropriate ones here (particularly the wide ones that don't fit so well into article page layouts). Perhaps this winter I'll find time to run through my old SD cards and see what belongs here. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:23, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Your rounding up more pictures would be great. The list-article did not have a table that called for pictures until just now, though, so it would have been hard to add pics previously. Thanks for the boathouse one in Prospect Park, which i added here after you added it to the new article on it.doncram (talk) 18:40, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Anyone can search through Commons with appropriate searchwords; there's an awful lot of pix with no cats or unhelpful ones. Usually after taking a pic for an article, I do such a search and sometimes come up with something better than mine. Then look in the Commons autopersonal gallery of that photographer and chase him through the streets, labelling and categorizing. Did that with a Hungarian tourist earlier this year who produced mostly junk and a few real nice shots but had very little idea what he was shooting except whether it was Manhattan or Brooklyn. Such studies do take sitting down time, however, which is scarce for me when the open road and warm sunshime beckon.

Today was typical with three precise targets, two or three vague targets and a hope to encounter interesting surprizes. Bagged the Astral Apartments and a pavilion in a park in eastern Greenpoint. Monseigneur somebody's park and a war memorial angel statue. I still don't know anything about art and architecture but am finding enough confidence to say it's a good building and an insipid statue. Shot targets of opportunity in Billyburg and Glendale but filled my SD card in Fresh Meadows before getting anything good of the railroad yard. Instead of returning home by the potentially interesting Metropolitan Avenue I took the boring Rust/Review route and still wished I could snap the Flushing Avenue overpass but that's what I get for not bringing a spare camera card.

With good weather in the forecast I won't look at these pictures this month; they go into the thousand-pic backlog. Hope to see some of you at the Wikipicnic Sunday Aug 23 in Prospect Park and if you snap some pix of the two NRHP's in the park for which we have no photo, I can avoid adding them to my backlog. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:34, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Flushing Avenue

Can anyone identify the church I snapped on Flushing Avenue a couple weeks ago? With the Sun fading low and me in a hurry to pedal home over Brooklyn Bridge before dark, my shots of the identifying signs were hopelessly blurred. Jim.henderson (talk) 05:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Photos needed

Not necessarily complete or accurate

{{NRHP row

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
17	Bay Ridge United Methodist Church		September 9, 1999 (#99001132)	7002 Fourth St. 40°38′01″N 74°01′29″W	Bay Ridge	Razed October 21, 2008
38	Clinton Hill South Historic District		July 17, 1986 (#86001675)	Roughly Lefferts and Brevoort Pl. between Washington Ave. and Bedford Pl. 40°40′50″N 73°57′32″W	Clinton Hill
49	Cypress Avenue West Historic District		September 30, 1983 (#83001768)	Roughly bounded by St. Nicholas and Seneca Aves., Linden and Stockholm Sts. 40°42′15″N 73°54′46″W	New York	part of the Ridgewood MRA
78	Industrial Complex at 221 McKibbin Street		May 12, 2009 (#09000303)	221 McKibbin St. 40°42′20″N 73°56′19″W	Brooklyn
92	Mary A. Whalen (tanker)		October 3, 2012 (#12000831)	Pier 9B, Red Hook Container Terminal Coordinates missing	Red Hook	Tanker that shipped oil along East Coast; at center of United States v. Reliable Transfer Co., seminal decision in maritime law
118	Public School 39		April 17, 1980 (#80002646)	417 6th Ave. 40°40′07″N 73°59′02″W	Park Slope
120	Public School 7		November 3, 1983 (#83003986)	131-143 York St. 40°42′06″N 73°59′09″W	Downtown Brooklyn
129	Senator Street Historic District		October 10, 2002 (#02001115)	318-370 and 317-347 Senator St. 40°38′12″N 74°01′27″W	Bay Ridge
140	Storehouse No. 2, U.S. Navy Fleet Supply Base		February 20, 2013 (#13000026)	850 3rd Ave. 40°39′34″N 74°00′16″W	Sunset Park	One of two remaining such facilities from base built for World War I.
149	US Post Office-Metropolitan Station		November 17, 1988 (#88002462)	47 Debevoise St. 40°42′06″N 73°56′30″W	Williamsburg	part of the US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
152	Wallabout Historic District		April 27, 2011 (#11000229)	73-83 & 123-141 Cleremont Ave.; 74-148 & 75-143 Clinton Ave.; 381-387, 403-421 & 455-461 Myrtle Ave.; 74-132 & 69-149 Vanderbilt Ave. 40°41′40″N 73°58′12″W	Wallabout	Surviving frame houses from 17th century; one of oldest areas of borough.
153	Wallabout Industrial Historic District		August 7, 2012 (#12000479)	Clinton, Flushing, Grand, Park, Washington, & Waverly Aves., Hall, & Ryerson Sts. 40°41′49″N 73°58′01″W	Wallabout
154	Weir Greenhouse		May 10, 1984 (#84002487)	750-751-5th Ave. 40°39′32″N 73°59′47″W	Sunset Park
156	Willoughby-Suydam Historic District		September 30, 1983 (#83001782)	Suydam St., Willoughby, St. Nicholas, and Wyckoff Aves. 40°42′21″N 73°55′14″W	Brooklyn	part of the Ridgewood MRA

This is a very handy item. I clicked on Google Maps to see the map of missing pictures. That was only moderately useful until I clicked on Google Earth and brought up my copy of GE which is configured to show the Wikipedia layer, which shows my old pictures including a (poor) one of a church marked as having no photo. Umm, the yellow mark and the red-blue mark didn't quite coincide, because the NRHP coordinates are off by half a block; must repair that also but I wouldn't have found it without this list. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:58, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

If we're going to do a Wikipedia takes Brooklyn or other photo hunt, we should have a similar list in Talk:List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn and other appropriate places. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:44, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

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