About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0007
  • Title[Road work near Borough Hall]
  • SummaryIntersection in Brooklyn Heights showing wooden barrier around road work site; several men standing around barrier and looking down into pit; Borough Hall with clock tower at left; former courthouse building (since destroyed) with elaborate mansard roof in right background; sign for undertaker in storefront at right; elevated rail tracks, trolley car, and horse and carriage in background. Inscription on verso: "Camera in roadway at sts. 112 + 70 looking east showing obstructions at N.W. & S.W. corners of Court & Joralemon Sts."
  • Date1906
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 7-20-1906.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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 1