![[Fire in downtown Brooklyn]](../../external.gif?link=http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/405da9611ae0e9b91c755590a05fc13a&ext=.jpg)
| Title: | [Fire in downtown Brooklyn] |
| Description: | Aerial view of fire fighters amid heavy smoke on roof of five-story abandoned building; sign on first floor of building reads, "Tech Book Exchange"; crowd watching from sidewalk at lower left; excavation for building site, probably as part of reconstruction of Brooklyn civic center, in foreground. |
| Date: | 1953 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 2, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. |
| Collection: | Government [4]
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| Subject: |
Fires [5] Fire fighters [6] Building construction [7] |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Aerial views. |
| 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: | GOVT 0064 |