About This Item

  • Title[Cross Bay Parkway]
  • Call NumberBRID_0179
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0168), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Cross Bay Parkway. 0168 is a construction site and 0179 shows same area, including two trucks and one automobile in foreground and plaza beyond, when construction is nearly completed. Cross Bay Parkway leads to Cross Bay Bridge.
  • Date1938, 1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: typed caption: "Looking north from boardwalk at 95th Street;" 0168: date typed: 10/6/38; 0179: May 25, 1939. Title from inscription on verso; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • SubjectAutomobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Plazas -- New York (State) -- New York ; Road construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Roads -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trucks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceQueens (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.