About This Item


  • Call NumberGEHP_0105
  • SummaryBernie Ente, member of Newtown Creek Alliance, fishing for metal object in Newtown Creek with magnets. Photo of Bernie Ente and friends on Long Island City side of Newtown Creek, facing Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
  • Date200?
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF
  • Cite AsGreenpoint Environmental History Project, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatstill image
  • Genrecolor photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Original document digitized on November 29, 2018, as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Willis Elkins through the Greenpoint Environmental History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. Story about this image in the Newtown Creek Alliance oral history of this same project (Catalog # GEHP_0112).
  • SubjectNewtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.) ; Metal detectors
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleMagnet Fishing with Bernie Ente