About This Item

  • TitleCanarsie Trolley shuttle from Rockaway Parkway to Canarsie Pier.
  • Call NumberOSOS_0234
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDonor note: Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation. Canarsie trolley shuttle, from Rockaway Parkway to Canarsie Pier, shown approximately between East 95th and East 96th streets. Before trolleys were replaced by buses. Photograph from the collection of Joseph Beim, now owned by Steven Kaye. Add on train: Oetjens restaurant ... Flatbush and Church Avenues.
  • Date[1940-1951?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, color
  • Genrecolor slides
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original slide, 2 x 2 inches, digitized on December 7, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Steven Kaye at the Jamaica Bay Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectTransportation ; Railroads ; Railroad cars ; Subways--New York (State)--New York
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Canarsie (New York, N.Y.)
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