About This Item

  • Call NumberGOVT_0004
  • TitleAdams St. court & police station
  • SummaryView of brick building (no longer extant) with scaffold and four blocked up windows, seen from adjacent rooftop at Adams Street and Myrtle Avenue; used as court house, police station, and prison; elevates subway tracks at right.
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On verso: date inscribed: May 1/37. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • SubjectPublic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Government: Judiciary: Adams Street Court