About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_0474
  • TitleBoard of Transportation's new building
  • SummaryCaption: "Board of Transportation's new building in Brooklyn [at Willoughby Street and Jay Street], seen here in an architect's sketch by the firm of Eggers & Higgins, will house the central offices of the board, thus becoming the nerve center of the city's augmented rapid transit system;" several pedestrians, several automobiles, and commercial buildings on both sides.
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On recto: "Eggers and Higgins, Architects" printed in black in lower right corner. On verso: date inscribed: June 7/40. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectNew York (N.Y.). Department of Transportation ; Commercial buildings ; Office buildings
  • 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: Downtown Brooklyn: Board of Transportation Building