About This Item

  • TitleSunken apartments
  • Call NumberNEIG_2061
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree attached, four-story, brick apartment houses with fire escapes; one has shop of some kind on ground floor; one has "Lager Bier Saloon." three police barriers in foreground. Caption: "Sunken apartments--Corner of apartment house at 356 Wythe Ave., in Williamsburg, gapes open to street following collapse last night from unknown causes."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 26, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E. [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectApartment houses ; Brick houses ; Building failures
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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.