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Built
  
1874-75

Designated NYCL
  
October 16, 1973

Architect
  
NRHP Reference #
  
72000851

Added to NRHP
  
24 July 1972

Flatbush Town Hall

Location
  
35 Snyder Ave.Brooklyn, New York City

Address
  
35 Snyder Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226, USA

Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival architecture

Similar
  
Deno's Wonder Wheel A, Prospect Park Zoo, New York Aquarium, Staten Island Zoo, Queens Zoo

The flatbush town hall


Flatbush Town Hall at 35 Snyder Avenue between Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, is a historic town hall built in 1874-75 and designed by John Y. Culyer in the High Victorian Gothic style in the Ruskinian mode. It is a two story masonry building on a stone foundation, and features a three-story bell tower with a steep hip roof. The building dates from the time before the Town of Flatbush was integrated into the City of Brooklyn, in 1894, after which the building served as a magistrate's court and the New York City Police Department's 67th Police Precinct station.

Due to the efforts of the Town of Flatbush Civic and Cultural Association and the Flatbush Historical Society, the building was saved from a planned demolition, and was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. In the late 1980s it underwent a redesign and refurbishment by the New York City Department of Administrative Services, and it is now used as a public school focused on the needs of special education children.

References

Flatbush Town Hall Wikipedia


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