About This Item

  • TitlePulaski Bridge
  • Call NumberBRID_0314
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0313), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two aerial views, in different views, of the Pulaski Bridge connecting 11th Street in Long Island City, Queens, to McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, over Newtown Creek. Typed caption on 0313: "The bridge is named after General Casimir Pulaski who served with the American Army in the Revolution and was mortally wounded during the siege of Savannah, 1779." Inscription on 0314: "Opened to traffic on Sept. 10, 1954." 0313 is not dated.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate from inscription on verso of 0314. Title from typed caption on verso of 0313.
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.)
  • 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.