1939

General view - Brooklyn.

A general view northwestward from No. 1 Hanson Place, the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building, showing the business center of Brooklyn. Running across the face of the view from the lower left-hand corner is Flatbush Avenue, with the B. M. T. "El" on it, and its Fulton Street station. The bare-faced building forming a triangle in the center is the Fox Theatre Building, at Livingston Street. The auto-parking space is at Third Avenue (trolley tracks) and Schermerhorn Street, this area being known as Temple Square. In the distance is the Lower Manhattan skyline. In the lower right-hand corner of view 2 is the Hotel Granada, Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place. The thoroughfares seen in view 3 running from the fore- to the background (left to right) are: State Street, Schermerhorn Street, and Livingston Street. May 12, 1939 Views 1,2,3 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection