About This Item

  • TitleLafayette Ave. between Marcy & Tompkins
  • Call NumberHERZ_0296
  • Cite AsIrving I. Herzberg photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryClose-up of free-standing sign, "120 new apartments on this site ... " on Lafayette Avenue between Marcy Avenue and Tompkins Avenue with two men standing in front of chainlink fence in foreground and debris-filled vacant lot, portions of two buses and several buildings and trees in background.
  • Date1970
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: March, 1970; photographer's stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorHerzberg, Irving I. [photographer]
  • SubjectFences ; Signs [lctgm] ; Urban renewal
  • CollectionIrving I. Herzberg photograph collection
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.