About This Item


  • TitleMarine Parkway Bridge
  • Call NumberBRID_0263
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0262), some of which may also be described in this new record; View of Marine Parkway Bridge, connecting the foot of Flatbush Avenue to Jacob Riis Park, during construction. Caption: "View of central lift span (500' - longest lift span in the world). Brooklyn terminus of Rockaway ferry in background."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0262: Grease pencil cropping marks. Date inscribed on versos: Apr. 14/37. Images are identical. Title from typed captions on versos.
  • SubjectBridges -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial BridgeQueens (New York, N.Y.)Rockaway (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.