This post office preserves the otherwise vanished name of a late-19th-century real estate development that was long ago swallowed by the neighborhood of Borough Park. In its day, Blythebourne was billed as "a model suburban village . . . [with] 40 different styles of cottages," an appealing alternative to that era's overcrowded tenements, whose "physical and moral evils have been deprecated by political economists, reformers, and philanthropists alike."
Day 824
Blythebourne Station
April 2nd, 2014
