About This Item

  • Call NumberTRAN_0224
  • TitleNew route to Coney
  • SummaryCaption: "New route to Coney--Celebrating opening of link between IND subway and Culver El, Guinan, left, representing Transport Workers Union, and Harris J. Klein, of Transit Authority, sport motormen's caps while latter's son, Mitch Klein, 4, wears fireman's hat. They're shown aboard official IND train, [with large banner across doorway, 'Another first!!! Bronx to Coney Island,' emerging from subway that comes all the way from The Bronx onto Culver El, stretching to Coney Island."
  • Date1954
  • 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: date stamped: Oct. 31, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSubways -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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: Subways: Els and inclines: Culver Line El