About This Item

  • TitleRochester Ave
  • Call NumberNEIG_0045
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySection of Rochester Avenue with commercial and residential buildings; three parked vehicles (two automobiles, one truck); pedestrian (man) on sidewalk; four buildings in center/right foreground appear to be abandoned.
  • Date[1925?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: ca. 1925. On verso: "Rochester Ave. (#94-100 at corner); west side, looking south toward cor. Dean St.;" "old 'Weeksville' houses." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectAbandoned houses ; Automobiles ; Commercial buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.