1940

Bridges - Brooklyn Bridge - Manhattan approach.

The Brooklyn Bridge and it's Manhattan approach as viewed eastward from the Municipal Building. This crosses the East River to the Brooklyn locale between the Columbia Heights area (right) and Flatbush Avenue Extension (left, approach to the Manhattan Bridge). The foreground zone has at times been known as the "Swamp" and "Cherry Hill". April 1940 George D. Chinn The two small snapshots made in 1898, the gift of Mrs. A. Gould, have no restrictions.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection