1940

Brooklyn: 3rd Avenue - 25th Street

3rd Avenue, east side, north from 26th to 25th Streets, showing the site during demolition activities to make possible the construction of Gowanus Parkway, the highway which will carry traffic to and from the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Buildings occupied by the General Air Filters Corporation, Neubauer and Company, and the Henshaw Furniture Company stood here. In the background is the spire of the Church of Our Lady of Czenstochowa. October 17, 1940 P. L. Sperr [handwritten matter follows] View 2: The N.E. corner of Third Avenue and 25th Street, before demolition View 3: The S.E. corner of Third Avenue and 25th Street. July 21, 1940 view 2: neg. no. A-945 view 3: neg. no. A-946

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection