About This Item


  • TitleShopping area
  • Call NumberNEIG_0329
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Shopping area--Every Brooklyn community has its own favorite shopping street. In Canarsie, it's Rockaway parkway, pictured, near Glenwood Road. The trolley tracks are now a relic of an age not so long ago." Image includes many parked cars and several utillity poles and overhead lines.
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar. 18, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamped. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAutomobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Stores, Retail -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Utility poles -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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.