About This Item

  • Call NumberBRID_0182
  • TitleGreenpoint Avenue Bridge
  • SummaryCaption: "Greenpoint Avenue Bridge ... was built during 1929 at a cost of more than a million dollars ..." The drawbridge, seen open in image, crosses Newtown Creek between a section of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Long Island City, Queens.
  • Date[193-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Drawbridges -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Bridges: Greenpoint Avenue