About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0025
  • TitleThe kids' playground
  • SummaryTwo two-story and one three-story abandoned tenement houses with iron fences along front, street light in right foreground, and residential buildings in right background. Caption: "The kids' playground--Houses on Franklin Ave., near Willoughby Ave., to be eventually removed for playground space, are now potential fire traps and danger spots for children of the neighborhood."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 2, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • PublisherBrooklyn Eagle
  • SubjectAbandoned houses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (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: Bed. Stuy.: Neighborhoods