Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn

Chadwick Boseman plays Jackie Robinson in the new film, “42,” about Robinson’s, life, bringing his inspiring story to a new generation. Fans young and old can find a number of places in Brooklyn connected to the baseball great.

The site of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ ballpark, Ebbets Field, which was torn down after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1957 and is today an apartment complex in the Crown Heights neighborhood.

A faded sign in the courtyard says “No ball playing.”

An aerial view of Ebbets Field in 1954.

This Jan. 31, 1962 file photo shows the apartment buildings under construction on the former site of Ebbets Field.

People in a playground at Washington Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A baseball park was located on the site beginning in the 1880s, and the team, later known as the Brooklyn Dodgers, used the Old Stone House, background center, as a clubhouse.

A man named Charles Ebbets worked there as a ticket-taker, eventually took over the team, and later built the Dodgers’ storied ballpark at Ebbets Field.

The Nazarene Congregational Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Baseball great Jackie Robinson was close to the church’s assistant pastor, the Rev. Lacy Covington, and at one time Robinson, whose son struggled with drug addiction, made a speech in the church warning against the scourge of drugs.

A building on MacDonough Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn where Jackie Robinson and his wife Rachel lived during his 1947 rookie season with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Robinson and his wife also lived in a house at 5224 Tilden Ave. in East Flatbush.

A plaque on a house in the Brooklyn borough of New York, where baseball great Jackie Robinson once lived. The sign says: “The first African-American major league baseball player lived here from 1947 to 1949.”

Jackie Robinson’s gravesite, where fans still leave tributes to the man who integrated Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.