About This Item


  • TitleTillary St
  • Call NumberNEIG_0682
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Tillary St., looking east from Washington St., as it appears today. Borough President Ingersoll plans to widen and landscape this thoroughfare as part of a program of improvements to facilitate traffic movements near the Brooklyn terminals of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. As the right is the north side of the Federal Building;" four moving vehicles (one truck) on snow-covered street, two pedestrians (men) on sidewalk in left foreground, restaurant with sign, "Bar & Grill," on street level of building on far left, several commercial (?) buildings and elevated subway tracks in background.
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Feb. 23/36. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectMunicipal buildings ; Pedestrians ; Restaurants ; Snow ; Trucks
  • 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.