About This Item


  • TitleBrownstone houses, Lafayette Ave
  • Call NumberHERZ_0294
  • Cite AsIrving I. Herzberg photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySeveral attached, three-story, apparently vacant, brownstone houses on Lafayette Avenue; magnolia tree in front of 679. See also: 0291, 0292, and 0293.
  • Date1970
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: March, 1970; photographer's stamp. On verso: "Old brownstone houses with rare magnolia tree in front of 679 Lafayette Ave. - to be razed for 'Model Cities'." Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorHerzberg, Irving I. [photographer]
  • SubjectBrownstone buildings ; Magnolias ; Trees
  • CollectionIrving I. Herzberg photograph collection
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  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.