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One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Atlantic Avenue Control House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Flatbush and Atlantic Aves., New York, 11217
- When was it listed? May 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Interborough Rapid Transit Subway Control Houses TR
- Borough. Brooklyn
- Architect. Heins & LaFarge
- National Register reference number. 80002643 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1889 to 1995The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
1,622 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,622 fires within 5 miles of Atlantic Avenue Control House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 447 acres in total. 99 started naturally. 136 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1081 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 136 |
| Natural | 99 |
| Smoking | 92 |
| Debris and open burning | 63 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 61 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 35 |
| Fireworks | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Other causes | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Atlantic Avenue Control House: 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Molybdenum, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49th St & 1st Ave Beryl Deposit | Beryllium | Occurrence | ||
| Manhattan Island Occurrence | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| 2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y. | Iron | Unknown | ||
| N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y. | Lead | Unknown | ||
| Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y. | Lead | Unknown |
Maps showing this location
16 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1947 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Atlantic Avenue Subway Station (IRT and BMT) | under 500 feet | 2004 |
 | Brooklyn Academy of Music | 0.1 miles | 2006 |
 | Baptist Temple | 0.2 miles | 1995 |
 | Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
 | St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church | 0.3 miles | 1989 |
 | Fort Greene Historic District | 0.4 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80002643 in Record Group 79. |
| Kings County | All 207 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.