About This Item


  • TitleCanarsie Beach Park
  • Call NumberNEIG_0337
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial photograph: section of Canarsie Beach Park with many people on beach and in water, and many parked and several moving automobiles. Caption: "C is Canarsie Beach Park ... now 28 acres ... Roy M. Mann, civic worker, has proposd [sic] that the city acquire surrounding propoerty, which would total 300 acrs [sic], and enlarge this park as part of the marginal highway system."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately 1/4 of original image appears to be missing; large rectangular piece missing in lower right. On recto: black C in black-outlined white circle in center. On verso: date inscribed: Aug. 14/37; photographer's stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorPinney, Roy
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectBeaches ; Shorelines
  • 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.