About This Item

  • TitleEmmons Ave
  • Call NumberNEIG_1881
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInscription: "Photo shows Emmons Ave., Sheepshead Bay, since removal of obsolete trolley loading platforms in center of roadway ... Clearance is expected to speed flow of traffic along busy waterfront thoroughfare." Image includes many parked automobiles on both sides of street.
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1949. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (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.