[Coney Island Courthouse]

[Coney Island Courthouse]
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Title: [Coney Island Courthouse]
Description:

Courthouse, apparently no longer extant, with round tower and corner turret; two automobiles parked at curb; sign on adjacent building on left reads, "2937 Court Hotel'; images identical except for irregular portion missing from left of 0081. Caption: "Here is the Coney Island courthouse, more than half a cerntury old. Alongside it is the two-story detention pen."
Date: 1939
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn daily eagle.
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 10/39; "Eagle staff photos."
Collection: Government
Subject: Courthouses
Prisons
Lost architecture
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: 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: GOVT 0081