About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0561
  • TitleBreathing space
  • SummarySection of Cadman Plaza area of Downtown Brooklyn with gravelled area in foreground and several commercial, office, and residential buildings (one high-rise) and two trolley cars in background. Caption: "Breathing space--View from the Brooklyn Bridge plaza toward Borough Hall shows wide open area where spidery bridge approach once stood. At extreme left is the Federal Building and directly behind it is the old Eagle tower. The tall building is 16 Court St."
  • Date1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately half of original image appears to be missing. Grease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 21, 1944. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCommercial buildings ; Office buildings
  • 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: Cadman Plaza 1900-1950 (1)