About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0991
  • TitleSlum on Fleet Place
  • SummarySection of Fleet Place with seemingly vacant three-story wood-frame house with fire escape, four-story brick house, two other three-story houses and large sign, "Paramount," in background, portions of two parked automobiles on far right, portion of residential building in left background. Debris that could be from demolished buildings in far left foreground and between second and third house on street. The area appears to be rather run-down.
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1949. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectApartment houses ; Slums
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Fort Greene: Neighborhoods