Brooklyn: Coney Island Avenue - Neck Road
(1) 2541 Coney Island Ave., east side, near Neck Road, showing the home of John Friend, built by him in 1853. This house was used in 1877 or thereabouts as a roadhouse. Coney Island Plank Road, now Coney Island Ave., was opened about the same time. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, showing the wagon-smith shop of Augustus F. Friend erected in 1877, in the rear of his father's home. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection
