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Photo of Quincy and Downing Streets in 1910 via the NYPL; in 2008 by Zach van Schouwen.
Ready to take a depressing walk down memory lane? The somewhat-recently launched Re-Brooklyn blog compares side-by-side photos of locations in their past and present state. The latest entry is of the Broken Angel home on Quincy and Downing Streets (pictured). While that image isn't too shocking, there are some where, say, a Norwegian Evangelical Church is now an auto repair shop, or a row of houses on Snediker and Belmont Avenues has been demolished. [via Brownstoner]
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I don't find this all that depressing. Sure, it's a little sad to see a pretty church turn into an auto parts store, but the South Slope currently has many more people looking for fan belts than Norwegians looking for God.
And some buildings look like they needed to meet the wrecking ball. A few of those pictures look more like Deadwood than Brooklyn.
There's historical and there's just plain old.
http://brooklynpix.com/ has a pretty good collection of old Brooklyn pictures by neighborhood.