by Geoff Cobb 
We take the green space that today is McCarren Park for granted, but it was not always a park. Once the ground that the park now occupies had its own streets and factories. A May 5, 1901 articlein the Brooklyn Daily Eagle showed the buildings that were to be condemned to create the park, but it was not just buildings that needed…
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