About This Item

  • Title[Canarsie Post Office]
  • Call NumberNEIG_0351
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of one-story, prefabricated building with sign over doorway ("U.S. Post Office, Brooklyn 36, N. Y. Canarsie Station, Unit No. 1"); barrel on wood block in front of steps; portion of similar building in left background. Caption: "Postal finance branch ... was opened in 1946 at Rockaway Parkway and Seaview Ave. for convenience of veterans at Jamaica Bay Houses."
  • Date1951
  • 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: Mar. 18, 1951. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPost office buildings ; Prefabricated houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceCanarsie (New York, 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.