About This Item

  • TitleSigns contracts for $1,000,000 new home for bank
  • Call NumberBANK_0094
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Signs contracts for $1,000,000 new home for bank--Benjamin Moscowitz of De Young, Moscowitz and Rosenberg, architects, Borough President John Cashmore, Cyrus S. Julien of Wingate & Cullen, attorneys for the bank, and William A. Berbusse, Jr., of Tidewater Building Company, Inc., contractors, look on as Paul W.Connelly, president of the Fulton Savings Bank ..., 375 Fulton St., sign contracts for the construction of the bank's new main office at 395 Jay St. to be ready in 1954.The construction of new banking quarters is part of the project of making way for extension of the new Brooklyn Civic Center, part of which will be on the present site of the bank. It is estimated that the new bank will cost upwards of $1,000,000."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Aug.31, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCashmore, John, 1895-1961 ; Bank employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- New York ; Contractors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, 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.