About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0681
  • TitleTillary St. and Jay
  • SummaryIntersection of Tillary Street and Jay Street with street light in left foreground, four pedestrians on sidewalk, center and far right, vacant lot with large gravel pile surrounded by sawhorses with sign, "Street closed," and backs of several apartment houses (one with fire escape, one with laundry on clothesline) in background, and trolley tracks on street in foreground. It is assumed that one or both streets are in process of being widened.
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1937. On verso: "Widening." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectApartment houses ; Pedestrians ; Roads -- Maintenance and repair ; Street lighting ; Streets
  • 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: Downtown Brooklyn: Tillary Street