About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0440
  • Title940-948 St. Marks Ave
  • SummaryFacade of large four-story (apartment?) masonry house (appears to be vacant) at 940-948 St. Marks Avenue with man standing in front yard, iron and wood fences along front, residential buildings on both sides, and sidewalk with two pedestrians, several trees, and street in foreground.
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1905. On verso: "Was torn down to make way for apartment house." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectAbandoned houses ; Apartment houses ; Dwellings [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Crown Heights: St. Marks Avenue