About This Item

  • TitleRevised plans for the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge
  • Call NumberBRID_0002
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Revised plans for the [proposed] Brooklyn-Battery Bridge superimposed upon an aerial photograph which have been submitted to the War Department by Park Commissioner Moses and eliminate all objections cited by the army in the denial of a permit last week. Chief alteration has been the bending of the water spans to form a shallow obtuse angle with the apex at a joint anchorage on the tip of Governors Island .." Image shows Governors Island in foreground and portions of East River, Brooklyn on right, and Lower Manhattan on left.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genreaerial photographsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately half of original image appears to be missing; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: May 24/39; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorDavis, John Adams [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cityscapes -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationGovernors Island (New York County, 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.