Skip to main content
VVestiges of New York49,000+ historical photos
MapBrowseAboutGet the iPhone app (opens the App Store)
  1. Browse /
  2. Brooklyn /
  3. This place

Middleton Street & Throop Avenue, Brooklyn

1 historical photo taken here in 1931.

See this spot on the map

Photos

  • Brooklyn: Middleton Street - Throop Avenue, 1931

    Brooklyn: Middleton Street - Throop Avenue

    1931

Stand where these photos were taken

The free OldNYC app for iPhone centers the map on you and shows the historical photos taken closest to where you are.
Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)
QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store

Or scan with your iPhone

Nearby places

  • Broadway & Lorimer Street, Brooklyn (3 photos)
  • Throop Ave & Walton St, Brooklyn (2 photos)
  • Lynch Street & Harrison Avenue, Brooklyn (3 photos)
  • Heyward Street & Broadway Avenue, Brooklyn (2 photos)
  • Wallabout St & Throop Ave, Brooklyn (2 photos)
  • Harrison Avenue & Middleton Street, Brooklyn (7 photos)
  • Wallabout St & Harrison Ave, Brooklyn (5 photos)
  • Union Ave & Johnson Ave, Brooklyn (4 photos)

Explore

  • Map
  • Browse by place
  • Browse by decade

Boroughs

  • Manhattan
  • Brooklyn
  • Queens
  • Bronx
  • Staten Island

About

  • About and contact
  • Privacy

Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

OldNYC for iPhone

Find the historical photos taken closest to where you stand.

Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store
Brooklyn: Middleton Street - Throop Avenue, 1931

Photo 1 of 1 at Middleton Street & Throop Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Middleton Street - Throop Avenue

1931

166-190 Middleton Street, south side, east of Throop (left) to Harrison Aves. (right), as seen across excavation for the Independent Subway, (City owned) from Lynch Street. March 24, 1931. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

See this spot on the mapView on NYPL Digital Collections (opens in a new tab)

See this photo in high resolution

Zoom into the full-resolution scan in the OldNYC app for iPhone with OldNYC Supporter ($4.99). The free app also centers the map on you, so you can find the photos taken closest to where you stand.
Download on the App Store (opens the App Store)
QR code that opens OldNYC on the App Store

Or scan with your iPhone