About This Item
- TitleBrooklyn Beach Gardens Apartments, Inc
- Call NumberNEIG_0010
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryPlan of housing development (Brooklyn Beach Gardens Apartments); proposed Shore Road Parkway and Gravesend Bay in foreground; also shown: Cropsey Ave., Bensonhurst park, and two subway stations. (Extension of Shore Parkway past Gravesend Bay scheduled for 1946-49; citation: New York City Construction Schedule for Arterial Highways and Parkways: 3527.).
- Date[1946?]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsplans (orthographic projections)
- NoteOn recto: upper left: "53 acres - 5043 rooms; present land 25% occupancy; located at Cropsey Ave. and Gravesend Bay (adjoining Bensonhurst Park), Brooklyn, N. Y.;" lower left: "Suggested lay-out of Brooklyn Beach Gardens Apartments, Inc., Brooklyn, NY; Joseph P. Day, Pres.; Andrew J. Eken, Vice Pres." On verso: photographer's stamp. Title from typeset caption on recto.
- CreatorTri-Boro Photos [photographer]
- SubjectBrooklyn Beach Gardens Apartments, Inc ; Housing development
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBath Beach (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.