About This Item
- TitleImposing hall of justice
- Call NumberNEIG_0210
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryFacade of two-story masonry building attached to four-story brick building with street light, street signs, tree, wheeled trash receptacle, and portion of parked automobile in foreground. Caption: "Imposing hall of justice--Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, at Pierrepont St. and Monroe place, without doubt the most impressive modern structure on Columbia Heights. Opened in 1938, it took 18 months to build and it cost $2,000,000." Note: he building pictured is not the Appellate Division Court building, but the site of the building described.
- Date1935
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date inscribed: July 10/35. On verso: "Appellate Division Court 2d Judicial Dist. site." Small pieces missing in bottom left and center, and right. Title from caption on verso.
- SubjectMunicipal buildings
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.