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

Remsen Avenue & Avenue M, Brooklyn

1 historical photo taken here in 1933.

See this spot on the map

Photos

  • Brooklyn: Remsen Avenue - Avenue M, 1933

    Brooklyn: Remsen Avenue - Avenue M

    1933

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

  • Canarsie Lane & East 92nd Street, Brooklyn (3 photos)
  • 92nd Street & Avenue L, Brooklyn (2 photos)
  • East 94th Street & Avenue L, Brooklyn (3 photos)
  • 88th Street & Avenue N, Brooklyn (2 photos)
  • East 92nd Street & Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn (2 photos)
  • East 92nd Street & Avenue K, Brooklyn (3 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: Remsen Avenue - Avenue M, 1933

Photo 1 of 1 at Remsen Avenue & Avenue M, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Remsen Avenue - Avenue M

1933

Remsen Ave (right) east side, south of Ave. M to Canarsie Beach Park (wooded area), showing the city dump at the left with several shacks thereon. July 6, 1933. 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