About This Item

  • TitleConey Island
  • Call NumberCONE_0114
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryRendering (drawing) of proposed (?) Coney Island housing development; five high-rise (14-story) apartment houses, small apartment houses in right foreground and background, intersecting streets with several parked and moving automobiles in foreground, and boardwalk and beach in background.
  • Date[195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteOn verso: "New York City Housing Authority." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectApartment houses ; Beaches ; High-rise apartment buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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.