Schermerhorn Street is an east-west downtown Brooklyn street running between Clinton Street and Flatbush Avenue a block south of Livingston, named for a merchant family in the early 1800s. Abraham Schermerhorn’s daughter Caroline married into the Astor family and became the famed Mrs. Astor of the Four Hundred fame, which determined anyone who was anyone in […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2017/03/sts-constantine-helen-cathedral-downtown-brooklyn/
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