About This Item

  • TitleLooking from the two State piers at Greenpoint
  • Call NumberNEIG_1404
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryPier, empty except for two piles of gravel or sand, projecting into river, with Manhattan skyline in background; derrick and industrial structure to left of pier. Caption: "Looking from the two State piers at Greenpoint across the East River. Greenpoint is one of the four terminals being built or planned for Brooklyn."
  • Date[193-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 6 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on recto. Retouched. Caption (1 x 4 in.) covering bottom right corner of photograph.
  • SubjectPiers ; Rivers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (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.