About This Item
- TitleProject yields to park
- Call NumberNEIG_1547
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1548, NEIG 1549, NEIG 1546, NEIG 1544, NEIG 1545), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption: "Project yields to park -- Workmen proceed with demoltion of Manhattan Beach veterans project to make way for city park on site which once housed thousands of persons. Acres of barracks -- long a subject of contention between the State and tenants who wished to remain -- have now been leveled. Park is in the 1955 Capital Budget and, if Board of Estimate approves, contracts will be let out this Fall."
- Date1954
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar. 24, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorGeller, Jules [photographer]
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectWrecking ; Construction workers ; Girders
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Beach (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.