About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2054
  • TitleDemand play street
  • SummaryCrowd of demonstrators, mostly women, some with signs and placards, gathered on street and sidewalk; stores and parked automobiles on far side of street; onlookers throughout. Caption: "Demand play street -- Mothers in Williamsburg gather at S. 1st St. and Havemeyer St. today to demand that block of S.1st St. between Havemeyer St. and Marcy Ave. be made play street. Two-year-old Dorothy Goodin of 264 S.1st St. was injured yesterday when an auto struck a cardboard box in which she was playing."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 10, 1949. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDemonstrations ; Storefronts ; Mothers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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: Williamsburg: Neighborhoods