About This Item

  • TitleConey Island is readily accessible by parkway, highway, subway and water
  • Call NumberCONE_0025
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySimplified map of New York metropolitan area showing access to Coney Island. At bottom left of photograph: "Shore Parkway at the Narrows--no part of the city is more than one hour away by car over the parkway system." At bottom right of photograph: "Proposed construction or reconstruction." Also on label: "City of New York - Department of Parks - 12-10-52."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Dec. 9, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from label on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectMaps ; Urban transportation
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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.