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[Ashland Place and Fulton Street, Brooklyn: BMT Fourth Avenue Line]

Survey photograph showing teams of horses excavating spoils, Ashland Place and Fulton Street, Brooklyn on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line. In the upper left-hand corner is the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Original photographic logbook notation reads: Photographs are intended to show the condition of the buildings on the west side of Ashland Place adjacent to the property recently acquired by the City and also views of the are from which the houses have been razed. View of house foundations and yards on west side of Ashland Place, looking south from Fulton Street.

1911

Ashland Place

[Ashland Place and Fulton Street, Brooklyn: BMT Fourth Avenue Line]

Survey photograph showing teams of horses excavating spoils, Ashland Place and Fulton Street, Brooklyn on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line. In the upper left-hand corner is the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Original photographic logbook notation reads: Photographs are intended to show the condition of the buildings on the west side of Ashland Place adjacent to the property recently acquired by the City and also views of the are from which the houses have been razed. View of house foundations and yards on west side of Ashland Place, looking south from Fulton Street.

IMAGE DATE1911
FromNew York Transit Museum logoNew York Transit Museum

Horse-powered excavation for the BMT Fourth Avenue line on Ashland Place, north of Lafayette Avenue, January 10, 1911.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is visible at the edge of the frame, upper left.

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