Bay Street, east from Clinton to Court Streets. August 31, 1934. P.L. Sperr.

Street address: Bay Street & Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY

Columbia Street, east side, south of Halleck (left) Street, showing at the right background the New York State Canal Terminal Building. The two one story frame shacks at each end are numbered 597 and 601. Halleck Street appears prominently in the...

Street address: Columbia Street & Halleck Street, Brooklyn, NY

Columbia Street, south from Halleck Street to Gowanus Canal, showing the New York State Canal Terminal Grain Elevator on the left. August 31, 1934. P. L. Sperr.

Street address: Columbia Street & Halleck Street, Brooklyn, NY

Bay Street, north side, west of Court Street. The house in the foreground, is No. 633 Court Street. August 5, 1934. P. L. Sperr.

Street address: Bay Street & Court Street, Brooklyn, NY

Halleck Street, north side, between Smith Street and Gowanus Canal. The buildings at the right, are the Bowne Merton Stores, at 6ll Smith Street. In the background on 13th Street, are the Brooklyn Union Gas Co. Tanks. In the extreme left, is the...

Street address: Halleck Street & Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY

Court Street, from Bryant Street to Gowanus Canal, showing in the background the Ira S. Bushey and Sons boat building plant. October 8, 1937. P. L. Sperr. PortSide note: Ira S. Bushey & Sons was more than a shipyard. They also were a fuel...

Street address: Court Street & Bryant Street, Brooklyn, NY

"Steamers Loading Exports in the Atlantic Basin" One of a large series of picture postcards published by the Brooklyn Eagle in the early 1900s.  In addition to steamers, numerous barges - both square and Dutch style of rounded ones - also fill...

Lightship No 84, sunk off old Revere Sugar dock in 1997. Its tall masts remained sticking up out of the water for 12 years, a reminder of what will happen when a boat is not cared for. Built in 1907, the ship served for many years as a floating...

Floating grain elevators were used to move grain up, out of the holds of ships and barges and then top load the grain into storage bins on land or on other vessels. According to Henry R. Stiles in A History of the City of Brooklyn , Daniel Richards...

During a tuberculosis scare in 1934 a New York Health Commissioner study disproved the belief that people of color suffered in greater numbers than whites. The New York Age: National Negro Weekly  reported that the study which compared Harlem...