[Tillary Street near Washington Street, BMT Broadway Line, Brooklyn, NY]
Tillary Street near Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY. Survey photograph during construction of the BMT Broadway line. Eastward view of what is probably an elevated storage yard for trains running across the Brooklyn Bridge, with the BMT Myrtle Avenue Elevated line visible in the distance. Also showing a cafe, and a sign for Piel Brothers Beer - produced in East New York.
New York Transit MuseumEastward view of Tillary Street, between Fulton Street (now Cadman Plaza West) and Washington Street (Cadman Plaza East), December 7, 1915.
The elevated structure at the northwest corner of Washington Street is the southern end of a storage yard for trains terminating at Sands Street. In the background at right, the tracks of the Myrtle Avenue El cross Tillary Street.
The present path of Tillary street is several yards north of the cobblestoned thoroughfare picture above.
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