SummaryCaption: "Board of Transportation Building--Architect's drawing of the nearly completed $8,000,000 transit building on Jay St., between Willoughby [Street] and Myrtle Ave., which ... will be opened soon after Jan. 1. Atop the 13-story building there will be a penthouse housing the city's largest private telephone exchange, serving far-flung city transportation system. The northern facade will overlook the projected Brooklyn Civic Center. The new headquarters for the city's unified transit system will be an L-shaped building on 42,000 feet of city-owned land. A section along Pearl St. will be only six stories high because of zoning restrictions;" several pedestrians, several automobiles, several commercial buildings in right background, and several commercial/residential buildings in left background.
NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On recto: Chester B. Parce (?) written in ink (?) in lower right corner. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 10, 1950; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
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