About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0885
  • TitleRight about here
  • SummaryCaption: "Right about here--Members of the Board of Estimate and reporters [all back to camera] cluster about Mayor O'Dwyer and Borough President Cashmore as they view the site of the projected Owls Head Sewage Disposal Plant. The $15,500,000, structure which is bitterly opposed by the Bay Ridge Citizens Committee, would be placed across Gowanus Parkway from Owls Head Park overlooking the harbor."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : & w ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 8, 1946; on caption: :Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHarbors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sewage disposal plants -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Sewage: Owls Head Sewage Treatment Plant