About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0019
  • TitleLeaning tenement of Brooklyn
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0023), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two men, one Black, stand in doorway of tenement; mail box attached to doorway, right, and garbage can on each side of doorway. Caption: "Leaning tenement of Brooklyn--It looks like the fun house at an amusement center, but it spells terror to the three families [still] occupying the doomed and crumbling building at 617-19 DeKalb Ave. ...Reporter stands in doorway which leans precariously as contrasted to dotted line perpendicular to sidewalk."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 23, 1952; photographer's stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSlums ; Tenement houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Bed. Stuy.: Housing