About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1170
  • TitleOpen-air garage
  • SummaryDebris in foreground after rear of residential building has been destroyed; man is leaning on portion of building in top center. Caption: "Open-air garage--Flood waters of last night's storm did this to garages behind homes at 6642-44 Sedgwick Place in Bay Ridge. Water undermined rear wall of twin garages, tumbling it into back yards."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 8, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDwellings ; Storms
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)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: Bay Ridge: Neighborhoods: Miscellaneous