About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1324
  • TitleTraffic peril
  • SummaryBus and approximately twelve automobiles clustered on eastern side of Grand Army Plaza; Memorial Arch, Bailey Fountain, free-standing column, and bare trees in background; trolley tracks and overhead trolley wires in foreground. Caption: "Traffic peril -- A view of Grand Army Plaza which is giving traffic engineers a headache trying to solve the heavily traveled circle's numerous traffic problems caused chiefly by the number of streets running into it."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar. 8, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCommunication and traffic ; Traffic circles ; Automobiles ; Buses ; Street railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn, 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: Grand Army Plaza: General