Old NYC Farms

Keeping with the farming theme, there was also a great little article in Sunday's NYT City section (almost always a preservation-related article each week) about old New York farms:

The Last Strains of a Pastoral Song

It's about a photographer named Clinton Irving Jones who documented many of New York's old farms (mostly Dutch) between 1905 and 1911, while the farms were rapidly disappearing.

Here's the old Van Brunt farmhouse at 18th Ave. and 84th St.:















And here's the Schenck-Crooke house on Ave. U near 63rd St.:















both photos by Clinton Irving Jones via The NYT

Very cool!

The photos are on exhibit at Underbridge Pictures, an art gallery in DUMBO. The exhibit closes Sunday, but there's a reception for it this Thursday from 6-8. The gallery is located at 111 Front Street, Gallery 202, Brooklyn, NY 11201. I hope to be able to check it out!

There are also still a few old farmhouses left in NYC.

There's the Lott House in Marine Park, Brooklyn.
The Lent-Riker-Smith homestead in Jackson Heights, Queens.
The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood, Manhattan.
The Lefferts Homestead in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
And of course the Queens County Farm Museum in Queens (duh).

There are a few more as well, but you'll just have to find them yourself!