About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0025
  • TitleUp from Nanny Goat Park
  • SummaryCaption: "Up from Nanny Goat Park--The kids who used to inhabit Brownsville's garbage-strewn lots and fought gang wars with bottles, bricks, and weapons found in a junk heap called Nanny Goat Park, now have a $1,500,000 clubhouse with a modern gymnasium and $150,000 swimming pool." Image includes five boys who appear to be playing stickball.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 29, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBoys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Litter (Trash) -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Social welfare: Boys clubs: Brownsville: I