About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_0677
  • TitleImperial Restaurant, Red Hook Lane
  • SummaryFacades of four buildings (two brick, two masonry) on Red Hook Lane, later renamed Pearl Street; three have fire escapes on front. Building in center is presumably Imperial Restaurant, apparently closed at time of photograph; although impossible to ascertain definitely, the other three buildings appear to be commercial/residential buildings; second building from left has large banner over doorway: "...Clothing Depot"; woman is pushing baby carriage in right foreground; three pedestrians (men) and portion of parked automobile in left background.
  • Date1931
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteBlack grease pencil and red pen cropping marks. On recto: Eagle printed in black ink in bottom center. On verso: dates inscribed: taken Feb. 13, 1931; May 26/31. On verso: "Bldg. then 32 years old; this part wrecked in May, 1931."
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectApartment houses ; Commercial buildings ; Restaurants
  • 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: Pearl Street