About This Item

  • Call NumberTRAN_0537
  • TitleGowanus Parkway
  • SummaryCaption: "Construction of the Gowanus Parkway ... which will lead to the en[trance] of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is progressing ... Photo shows the steel skeleton of the first section of the Gowanus Elevated Parkway along 3d and Hamilton Aves, connecting the Belt Parkway at Owl's Head Park with Hicks St. ..."
  • Date1941.
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: May 4, 1941. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectElevated highways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Express highways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Roads -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Highways: Gowanus Parkway