Williamsburg Bridge, South Eighth and Berry Streets Brooklyn - 1937

 

Williamsburg Bridge rises out of haze above 8th Street, which slopes toward river and has homes and businesses along it. Williamsburg Bridge was completed in 1903, over the East River. Antique photograph of New York City. Date Created: 1937-04-28.

Photographer: Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). She proposed Changing New York, her grand project to document New York City, to the Federal Art Project (FAP) in 1935. Source: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. The New York Public Library.

 

Williamsburg Bridge

 

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Brooklyn scene

Snow Scene in Brooklyn, 1943.

 

 

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Williamsburg Bridge Plaza

 

 

 

 

 

Pike Street NY

Pike Street, Brooklyn, and Manhattan Bridge, 1936.

 

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline (1915).

 

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East River and Williamsburg Bridge, from Brooklyn Tower of Brooklyn Bridge - 1907.

 

 

 

 

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