Hipsterless Brooklyn: Vintage Photos From a Vanished World

Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.

View of the Manhattan Bridge, connecting Brooklyn with that island across the East River, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

From photographer’s notes: “Trolleys & tracks at corner of Flushing Ave., Graham & Broadway.”Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Brooklyn, New York, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Corner of Middagh and Hicks, Brooklyn Heights, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Jumping rope on Siegel Street near Humboldt, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

City veterans housing project, Canarsie, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Laundry out to dry, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Brooklyn street scene, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Unidentified Brooklynite, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Taking the sun on a Brooklyn rooftop, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Listening to a Dodgers-Giants ballgame on the radio, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Ebbets Field, 55 Sullivan Place, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Dodgers ballgame, Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Dodgers fans, Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Jack Kaufman outside his barber shop on Rogers Avenue in Brooklyn in 1946, holding a signed baseball that once beaned future Hall of Famer Joe Medwick.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Subway entrance, Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

On the waterfront, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Moore Street near Graham Avenue, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Sumner Avenue (now Marcus Garvey Boulevard) near Myrtle Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, 1946.Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

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