1936

Brooklyn: Shore Boulevard - West End Avenue

Shore Boulevard, north from West End Avenue to Emmons Avenue, showing a W. P. A. sewer and highway project at the western extremity of Sheepshead Bay, the buildings in the four views being on the north side of Emmons Avenue. The widening of Emmons Avenue is part of the city's circumferential highway system and necessitated the filling of part of Sheepshead Bay. Views 1,2: July 21, 1936 View 3: August 25, 1936 View 4: September 24, 1936 Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection