Coney Island

Coney Island
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Title: Coney Island
Description:

Aerial view of Coney Island with beach, boardwalk and amusement and residential areas. Caption: "Coney Island today and how it will possibly appear in the future. ...with superimposed, a drawing of the straightened boardwalk and enlarged beach and play areas."

Date: 1939
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Aug. 21, 1939.
On verso: typed label: "Proposed treatment: average width of new section of beach five hundred feet under new plan which adds twenty-eight acres of beach."
Retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Amusement parks
Beaches
Boardwalks
Shorelines
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Aerial photographs.
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: CONE 0368