About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2049
  • TitleLike a deserted street in a deserted village
  • SummaryLargely empty block of primarily three- and four-story wooden buildings; man standing near lamppost at bottom right; automobiles, pedestrians, and other buildings in left background. Caption: "Like a Deserted Street in a Deserted Village? Looking down Maujer St. from Leonard St. Uncle Sam's huge $12,000,000 Williamsburg housing project is under way. Houses are boarded up. There are small signs stating the property belongs to the Government and there must be no trespassing. Within the 12-block area bounded by Leonard and Scholes Sts. and Maujer St. and Bushwick Ave. crews of wreckers with axes and crowbars are clearing off old tenements."
  • Date1935
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 7 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date inscribed: June 27/35. Retouched; rectangular portion (3/4 x 4 in.) missing from bottom left.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectStreets ; Wooden-frame houses ; Lampposts
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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: Williamsburg: Maujer Street