Scan 5
Brooklyn, New York City, Classified Telephone Directory, 1939
26 lines. Read by computer on 12 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.
1BROOKLYN
2New York City's Greatest Borough
4BROOKLYN is the most populous borough of New York City, a pre-eminent industrial community, one of the leaders in domestic commerce, and the nation's foreign trade center. Despite its tremendous amount of commerce and industry, it is still known as a community of homes. This unique position is due to many factors, principally that of position. It is ideally situated on the busiest harbor in the world, close to both the vast commercial activities of Greater New York, and the varied recreational facilities of Long Island.
6ITS MARKET AND MANUFACTURING AREA
7Brooklyn has the requisites of any great business community, a ready labor supply, adequate transportation and communication facilities, easy access to a permanent market, world-wide shipping facilities and sufficient room for industrial development.
9Brooklyn has all these to a degree equaling any other city in the country. It has piers berthing the ships of more than 70 steamship lines, 26 freight terminals connecting to 14 railroads, and more than 5,000 manufacturing plants. Its position in the world's greatest metropolitan center—a zone of more than 12,000,000 persons and within 500 miles of one-third of the nation's people—assures it a ready labor supply and a permanent market; yet it has ample room for future development.
11ITS COMMUNITY OF HOMES
12To the Dutch who settled here in 1636, Brooklyn seemed ideal for homes. And as villages grew into each other, as parks and churches and schools increased, as the bridges and subways across the East River were built there came an ever-increasing impetus to home building.
14More than 165,000 of our 650,000 families own their own homes. Others are able to find a great variety of living quarters to suit their means. There are more than 37,000 stores, 800 churches, 250 theatres, twelve colleges and 450 schools. In addition there are 1,400 miles of paved streets, more than 2,500 acres of parks and playgrounds, and transit lines reaching to every section. Yet Brooklyn is still "under construction"—still planning and building for tomorrow.
16BROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
17[address hidden], BROOKLYN TRIangle 5-1000
19BMT LINES
20RAPID TRANSIT DIVISION
21ELEVATED LINES
22SUBWAY LINES
23LOCAL TRANSFER STATION
24EXPRESS TRANSFER STATION
25OPERATED BY NEW YORK RAPID TRANSIT CORPORATION
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.