About This Item

  • Call NumberBRID_0299
  • TitleMill Basin Bridge
  • SummaryAerial view of traffic on Mill Basin Bridge, a drawbridge on the Belt Parkway, over Mill Basin, connecting Bergen Beach with Floyd Bennett Field. Image includes portion of Jamaica Bay in distant background. Typed caption on verso: "Mill Basin Bridge: A movable, bascule bridge carrying Belt Parkway over Mill Basin, Brooklyn. Opened to traffic on June 29, 1940."
  • Date[1940?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; City traffic -- New York (State) -- New York ; Express highways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parkways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Roads -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Jamaica Bay (N.Y.)Mill Basin (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: Bridges: Mill Basin Bridge