About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0230
  • TitleBirds eye view, operations and steel work between 4th and 5th Aves. looking southeast from 64th St. west of 4th Ave
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing chutes on wooden trestles descending from top of embankment at left to track work at right; one railroad car at bottom of embankment in middle ground; stacks of building materials and pulley on tripod in right foreground; gas tank and scattered houses in background.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug-25-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trestles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Embankments -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsSubway Construction 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.
  • FolderSubway Construction Photographs; Box 3