About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0477
  • TitleBuilding going up
  • SummaryCaption (1949): "Building going up--Massive and steel framework for new 14-story Board of Transportation building at Jay and Willoughby Sts. is going up fast. Scene shows Jay St. side, looking toward Fulton St., with steel up to seventh story. Huge building will be city-wide headquarters for vast transit system."
  • Date1949, 1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: dates stamped: Sep[t] 26, 1949; Sep[t] 10, 1950. Title from earlier caption on verso.
  • SubjectNew York (N.Y.). Department of Transportation ; Building [lctgm] ; Structural frames
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Downtown Brooklyn: Board of Transportation Building