About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1583
  • TitleBrooklyn Food Market
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1592), some of which may also be described in this new record; Architectural rendering of proposed Brooklyn Food Market to be built on the waterfront at Thirty-ninth Street. Officially named Brooklyn Terminal Market, it relocated in 1941 to a 30-acre area adjacent to Remsen Avenue and Foster Avenue in Canarsie.
  • Date[194-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 10 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteOn recto of 1592: "Terminal food market at the Thirty-ninth Street ferry, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York" printed in upper left corner. "Henry Barnett Crosby, architect" written in lower right corner. 1583 is retouched. Title from caption on recto of 1592. Copy 2.
  • SubjectMarkets -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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: Markets: Brooklyn Terminal