About This Item

  • TitleKeeping close watch on customers and merchandise on sidewalk
  • Call NumberCOHEN_0017
  • Cite AsGeorge Cohen photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMan with cigarette in left foreground seated on chair below elevated subway tracks on Brighton Beach Avenue; older woman with cane crossing street at right; mother and child (backs to camera) crossing street in background; superette and other storefronts along street in background.
  • Date1986
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPEG, black & white
  • Genredigital images
  • NoteTitle supplied by photographer. Date provided by photographer: May 31, 1986.
  • CreatorCohen, George (Photographer)
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrighton Beach (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.
  • Copyright OwnerCohen, George