About This Item

  • TitleVacum cleaners on Brighton Beach Avenue
  • Call NumberCOHEN_0011
  • Cite AsGeorge Cohen photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMan with unkempt hair and beard (possibly homeless) in left foreground of street scene on Brighton Beach Avenue; man behind him seated on front seat of parked car with open door; two vacum cleaners laid out for display on sidewalk in front of car; passing bus, storefronts, and columns of elevated subway tracks in background.
  • Date1986
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPEG, black & white
  • Genredigital images
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date provided by photographer: May 31, 1986.
  • CreatorCohen, George (Photographer)
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Underpasses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Vacuum cleaners -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.
  • Copyright OwnerCohen, George