About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0593
  • TitleBrooklyn hovels
  • SummaryDebris from demolished buildings and truck in foreground and several tenements and two superimposed high-rise buildings in background. Caption: "Brooklyn hovels--Blighted area scheduled for rehabilitation under Controller McGoldrick's plan. The debris ... is back of Fleet St."
  • Date1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately 1/4 of original image appears to be missing. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 16, 1944. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectWrecking [lctgm] ; Tenement houses ; Urban renewal
  • 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: Fleet Street