![[Willoughby Street with excavation]](../../external.gif?link=http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/d3a9d8889bd3989de449442419d8c9f5&ext=.jpg)
| Title: | [Willoughby Street with excavation] |
| Description: | Lengthwise view from right of commercial street in Brooklyn Heights showing work crew excavating trench along length of curb; piles of dirt and debris on sidewalk parallel to trench; subway car passing on elevated tracks in background; former Municipal Building (no longer extant) behind elevated subway tracks; pedestrians waiting at trolley station at left; Hungarian restaurant, barbershop, cafe, and other retail establishments along sidewalk at right. Caption on verso: "Willoughby St. Sta. 94+40. View looking west on north showing trench excavated for duct line." |
| Date: | 1918 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 7-2-18. |
| Collection: | Subway Construction [4]
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| Subject: |
Streets [5] Streets [5] Subways [6] Railroads, Elevated [7] |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Photographic prints. Gelatin silver 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: | SUB 0078 |