About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0492
  • TitleConey Island cycle path
  • SummaryCaption: "Coney Island cycle path--Scene shows ceremonies at opening of Coney Island bicycle path in 1895. Note particularly the agility displayed by the bike-riding horn-tooters. Styles of almost everything else have changed since then, but bike look the same."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Sep[t] 20, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBicycle trails ; Cyclists ; Rites and ceremonies
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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: Coney Island: Cycle path