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Squatters Colony, Van Dyke Street & Otsego Street, 1934-1935

By The New York Public Library Digital Collections

Images of squatters shacks near Otsego, Columbia, Beard and Van Dyke Streets, taken October 1934 and May 1935 by photographer P. L. Sperr.

Squatters shacks between Columbia and Otsego, at Van Dyke

Squatters shacks, near Otsego and Van Dyke

Dates:

Oct. 4, 1934, May. 18, 1935

Street Address:

Van Dyke Street & Otsego Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. [map]

Related Tour

A Red Hook Walking Tour

Rights:

NYPL Website Terms & Conditions

Subjects

Squatters

Tags

shanties / shantytown

Sources:

OldNYC: http://www.oldnyc.org/#733172f-a
Complete item in NYPL Digital Collections: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/image_id/733173f
OldNYC: http://www.oldnyc.org/#733172f-c
OldNYC: http://www.oldnyc.org/#733172f-b
Complete item in NYPL Digital Collections: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/image_id/733172f
OldNYC: http://www.oldnyc.org/#733173f-b
OldNYC: http://www.oldnyc.org/#733173f-c
OldNYC: http://www.oldnyc.org/#733173f-a
OldNYC: http://www.oldnyc.org/#733174f-a
Complete item in NYPL Digital Collections: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/image_id/733174f
OldNYC: http://www.oldnyc.org/#733174f-b

Published on Jun 29, 2016. Last updated on May 19, 2018.