1937

Islands - Plumb Island - Brooklyn.

(1) Plumb Island, south side, viewed southward from the center of the Island. At the left background is the Rockaways and the Rockaway Inlet; at the right, Oriental Point and Brighton Beach; the latter being a Joseph P. Day development. The foot bridge shown in the foreground is on Plumb Island and connects portions severed by an artificial channel cut by the residents of Gerritsen Beach for sanitary purposes. June 18, 1937. P. L. Sperr. (2) The same, as seen across Shell Bank Creek (foreground) and from Gerritsen Beach. Note the bridge in the background. June 18, 1937. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection