About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0078
  • Title[Willoughby Street with excavation]
  • SummaryLengthwise view from right of commercial street in Brooklyn Heights showing work crew excavating trench along length of curb; piles of dirt and debris on sidewalk parallel to trench; subway car passing on elevated tracks in background; former Municipal Building (no longer extant) behind elevated subway tracks; pedestrians waiting at trolley station at left; Hungarian restaurant, barbershop, cafe, and other retail establishments along sidewalk at right. Caption on verso: "Willoughby St. Sta. 94+40. View looking west on north showing trench excavated for duct line."
  • Date1918
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 7-2-18.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads, Elevated -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderSubway Construction Photographs Box 1