1940

Brooklyn: Hamilton Avenue - Garnet Street

Hamilton Avenue, east side, south from Garnet Street, showing the area that was cleared of all its buildings for the construction of Gowanus Parkway, Brooklyn's northerly extension of the Belt Parkway. On the left is a row of tenements on the east side of Court Street; to its right is the Devoe and Raynolds paint factory on the Gowanus Canal, near the bridge. View 2 is south from Centre Street. View 1: October 23, 1940 View 2: September 7, 1940 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection