About This Item


  • Call NumberOSOS_0057
  • SummaryAerial view of Brightwater Towers in Coney Island; smaller buildings between towers at left and right; parking lot and portion of subway station in foreground; scattered trees throughout.
  • Date[2003]
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, color
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatstill image
  • Genreaerial photographsdigital images
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor: 2003-06-27. Original photograph (dimensions unknown) digitized on Oct. 7, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Gregory Kats at Kings Bay Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • SubjectHigh-rise apartment buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleBrightwater Towers