About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0986
  • Title[237 DeKalb Avenue]
  • SummaryCloseup of entrance to Fey's Sanitary Chinese Laundry at 237 Dekalb Avenue with young man wearing overcoat and fedora and pile of white, full laundry bags in doorway, portion of shop on each side and apartment houses above, and portion of police car in foreground. Location was scene of homicide/suicide on March 18 (?), 1950 (see NEIG 0985).
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1950. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectCrime scenes ; Laundries ; Police vehicles
  • 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
  • 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: Fort Greene: DeKalb Avenue