Your query caught my eye although I couldn't help with the specifics for that block.   >From about 1915 to the late 1940s my Italian grandparents (TORRE) owned 11 and 13 Middagh St on the north side in the last block before Columbia Hts; cross street (I think) Poplar. Each building was 4 stories, 4 floor-through apartments.  My grandparents lived on the ground floor of 13. That block was taken by the city when the BQE was built at which point they moved to rural NJ.  A fun book about the 1940-1941 eclectic occupants of 7 Middagh St, and the general neighborhood, is February House by Sherill Tippins.   Jeanne Torre