Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0270, BRID 0268, BRID 0264, BRID 0272, BRID 0267, BRID 0273, BRID 0271), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eight views, in different sizes, of the Marine Parkway Bridge. Caption (0272): "... the Marine Parkway Bridge [which opened July 3, 1937], is the world's longest highway lift span. This man-made gateway to Jamaica Bay provides direct automotive transit from the foot of Flatbush Ave. across Rockaway Inlet to Riis Park and the Rockaways." 0266 and 0271 show passengers on the bow of the M. S. Liberty Belle which sailed from the Battery to Rockaway. Three images are undated.
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