About This Item

  • Title9th Dist. Magistrates court, 5th Ave & 23 St., Brooklyn, in same building with saloon
  • Call NumberGOVT_0211
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of adjacent brick buildings in Sunset Park; building at right (two stories) unmarked courthouse; building at left (three stories) bar or saloon with canopy reading "JAS. J. KENNEDY. CAFÉ. INDIA WHARF HIGH GRADE LAGER BEER"; trolley tracks and cobblestone in foreground; team of horses at far right. Inscription on verso: "'Unsightly,' 'forbidding and vulgar in appearance,' according to Judge McAdoo.'".
  • Date1917
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 10, 1917.
  • SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.