About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_0650
  • Title[Lafayette Avenue house]
  • SummaryFacade of three-story apparently vacant house with shuttered windows, sidewalk and portion of street in foreground, and portion of adjacent building and billboard in background. Demolition equipment on far right and caption indicate that house is about to be demolished. Caption: "Located at Lafayette Avenue, Rockwell Place and Flatbush Avenue. F. L. Chanford, who owns the property, will erect the new building."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso; date stamped: Jun[e] 22, 1912; Brooklyn Daily Eagle label. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectAbandoned houses ; Wrecking [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Downtown Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue