About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0996
  • Title50 Lafayette Ave., Ft. Greene
  • SummaryFour-story corner building at 50 Lafayette Avenue with fire escape and bay window on second floor; two-story building on right with "Draperies" sign on storefront (partially obscured by post); rear of building with drain pipe in background; man in overcoat and fedora hat on sidewalk.
  • Date1929
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Apr. 18/1929. Title from inscription on verso. On recto: black 1 in black outlined circle in lower right corner. Retouched.
  • SubjectDwellings [lctgm] ; Apartment houses ; Drainage pipes ; Fire escapes
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Fort Greene: Lafayette Avenue