Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue

1940

Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue

Cumberland Street, east side, south from (No. 101) a point midway between Park and Myrtle Avenues, looking toward the latter. The auto parking space is the former site of the Brooklyn Cancer Institute. View 2 is south across the Myrtle Avenue elevated trestle. These buildings were later demolished and the site made part of Fort Greene Houses, a low-rent city housing center. October 10, 1940 Views 1,2 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection