Brooklyn: Flatbush Avenue - 5th Avenue

1940

Brooklyn: Flatbush Avenue - 5th Avenue

Flatbush Avenue, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue, viewing north up the former and showing the B. M. T. elevated line thereon. The trolley is turning in and is continuing down Fifth Avenue. Across the "El" is the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building. View 2 shows the gas station at the intersection of Flatbush and Fifth Avenues (right, view 1) and the rears of several rookeries fronting on Atlantic Avenue. Flatbush Avenue is on the left and the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building in the background. Views 1,2 June 14, 1940 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection