1940

Brooklyn: 3rd Avenue - 22nd Street

3rd Avenue, north from 24th to 22nd Streets, showing the buildings on the west side of the avenue and the clearance on the east side, which was created by the tearing down of numerous frame dwellings. Third Avenue is being reconstructed into Brooklyn's northerly extension of the Belt Parkway. October 23, 1940 P. L. Sperr View 2 shows to N.E. corner of Third Avenue and 24th Street, before demolition for the Parkway. View 3 shows the east side of the avenue at 23rd Street, looking north. July 22, 1940 view 2: neg. no. A-953 view 3: neg. no. A-954

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection