[Willoughby Street with excavation]

[Willoughby Street with excavation]
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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.)
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On recto: date inscribed: 7-2-18.
Collection: Subway Construction
Subject: Streets
Streets
Subways
Railroads, Elevated
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