About This Item

  • Title[Brooklyn-Queens Expressway]
  • Call NumberTRAN_0500
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (TRAN 0497, TRAN 0496, TRAN 0495, TRAN 0494, TRAN 0493, TRAN 0492, TRAN 0491, TRAN 0499, TRAN 0498, TRAN 0509, TRAN 0508, TRAN 0507, TRAN 0501, TRAN 0503, TRAN 0502, TRAN 0505, TRAN 0504, TRAN 0486, TRAN 0506), some of which may also be described in this new record; Twenty views of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, during construction, in various locations in Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, and Greenpoint. 0497 shows Levite Bosey, foreman of riveters, and ten-year-old Patrick Mulcahey. Several of the images are aerial views.
  • Date1939-1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description20 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0486: on verso: "Lambert" stamp; 0491-0495: cropped; 0491: 6 x 4 in.; 0492: 7 x 7 in. 0493: 6 x 9 in.; 0494: 5 x 10 in.; 0495: 7 x 10 in.; 0497, 0498, 0506: 10 x 8 in. Title from caption on verso of 0486; supplied partially by cataloger..
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectExpress highways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Roads -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (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.