The Abandoned Shoe Shine Shop on Court Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

On Court Street in Brooklyn in the middle of 3rd and 4th Place in Carroll Gardens, is an abandoned storefront where you can still see the remnants of a shoe-shine shop from the dusty windows. Carroll Gardens, and much of Court Street, has historically been a strong community for the Italian immigrant diaspora and you can see a good number of Catholic items inside, like a photo of the Pope on the wall, a cross and a shrine.

The tin ceiling is deteriorating, but we can imagine that going inside would be like opening up a time capsule. Newspapers, magazines and the calendar might give hint to when this place was last open, before it became a veritable storage space.

Zillow reports that the building, built in 1931, is not for sale but is worth an estimated $1.276 million. Don’t miss this interesting find when taking in the Italian American bakeries, butcheries and shops on Court Street!