About This Item

  • TitleModern magic on Brooklyn Heights
  • Call NumberNEIG_2476
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryResidential/commercial section of cobblestoned Atlantic Avenue with several parked and moving trucks, several street lights, and street and other signs and pedestrian (man) in far right foreground. Caption: "Modern magic on Brooklyn Heights--... Mile-long fourth link of the six-link Brooklyn-queens Expressway, from Gowanus Parkway to Brooklyn Bridge, [will be] opened to traffic Tuesday. ... Looking East on Atlantic Ave. at Columbia-Furman Sts. ... Expressway is being constructed by office of Borough President Cashmore. Andrews, Clark & Buckley, consulting engineers."
  • Date1951, published 1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 3/26/51; caption stamped: Jun[e] 20, 1954, Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. On verso: "Andrews, Clark & Buckley, consulting engineers." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorAndrews, Clark & Buckley
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectStreets ; Trucks
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cobble Hill (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.