About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2307
  • TitleWet street scene
  • SummaryMoving taxi cab on street in right foreground, and two three-story and one two-story brick apartment houses, several automobiles, and one pedestrian in background. Caption: "Wet street scene--The heavy downpour last night and early today flooded this spot at Glenwood Road and E. 53d St. as Flatlands motorists discovered."
  • Date1952
  • 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: May 12, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectApartment houses ; Roads -- Flood damage ; Streets ; Taxicabs
  • 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: Flatlands: Neighborhoods