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Posted by Kevin Walsh on Sat May 5 12:01:41 2001, in response to Re: Where Do You Say You Live?,
posted by BMTman on Sat May 5 00:04:02 2001.
>>>There is one guy who probably has EVERY map ever produced about Brooklyn. His name is Brian
Merlis (aka 'Mr. Brooklyn'). Unfortunately, he ain't likely to be parting with any of them in the near
future. <<<
For the right price, he would. I plan to see him later this month for pics of early Kings Highway, for a page for
www.forgotten-ny.com
His collection is truly prodigious. He is the Barry Halper (Yankees collector) of Brooklyn and NYC nostalgia. He once showed me a pristine copy of a 1920s Belcher Hyde Brooklyn desk atlas...to me, one of the holy grails of Brooklyn street maps. They have one at the Brooklyn Business Library but it's all rotten and falling apart...
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