SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 2733), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption: "This air view of Brooklyn Bridge Plaza [later renamed Cadman Plaza, in Downtown Brooklyn] was taken just before completion of the last block of the improvement, which, Borough President Ingersoll and the Park Department revealed today, has been carried as far as possible pending removal of the elvated structure. The work of demolishing some 125 buildings and creating a broad new approach to the Brooklyn side of the oldest of East River bridges was begun in November, 1935. The Borough President's office, using WPA labor, razed the buildings in the 21-acre site bounded by Fulton, Washington and Sands Sts., and did all the new streetmaking. The Park Department landscaped, planted and supplied the finishing touches to the project. The Sands St. elevated terminal, prominent in the foreground, blocks both completion of the plaza and the plan of Plant and Structures Commissioner Frederick J. H. Kracke to rebuild the Brooklyn entrance to the bridge;" many residential, commercial, and office buildings (several are high-rise).
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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