About This Item

  • TitleHeading for Flatbush
  • Call NumberTRAN_0565
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Heading for Flatbush--When finally completed, in 1957 or 1958, the Prospect Expressway will extend the Gowanus Parkway from South Brooklyn to Ocean Parkway in Flatbush, serving as a major crosstown arterial route. First section ... is shown [on this map] as solid black line, running along Prospect Ave. from 3d Ave. to 6th Ave. Remainder of the expressway, shown as dotted line, is to be built ... either next spring or in the spring of 1956 ..."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsmaps (documents)photographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 30, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectExpress highways -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.