4th Great-Grandmother's House / Grocery

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94 S 3rd Street, Williamsburg(h), Brooklyn, NY

This is probably the building that my great-great-great-grandmother helped run with her husband John Meyer. A blended family, she raised his 3 kids with her 1 (George Martin Harms) by her first marriage (ended with George D. Harms’ death from pneumonia).

Records show that the grocery was in the ground floor with the family living upstairs. Later, as Meyer retired, he turned it into a saloon. Meyer died in 1927 and the building was used as (evidently) a luncheonette and deli.

It’s been scraped and rebuilt since and is now a preschool for Spanish-speaking kids. German-speaking to Spanish-speaking: NYC.