About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0212
  • TitleHard on the eyes
  • SummaryFacade of four-story partially vine-covered brick building (perhaps vacant or abandoned) with rickety fence, tree, pile of cinderblocks, and postman standing at mail box in foreground; portions of parked automobiles on far left and far right. Caption: "Hard on the eyes of residents living on Brooklyn Heights is this ugly iron fence used in connection with construction operations for the Brooklyn-Queens Connecting Highway."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 9, 1949. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFences
  • 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: Brooklyn Heights: Pierrepont Street