This week's Photo of the Week takes us to a scene on the Canarsie Creek in 1924 where 1-year-old, William Johnson, floats in a little toy boat next to a skiff holding an unidentified man and boy. It's possible this creek is a section of the Fresh Creek Nature Preserve, a body of water between Canarsie and Starrett City in the Jamaica Bay Watershed. In October 2021, the Governor's Office of Storm Recovery announced the Fresh Creek Coastal Projection Project, an initiative to address flooding and rising sea levels affecting residents, while restoring the shoreline. The Project will hopefully allow Canarsians to enjoy their proximity to water for years to come.
This photo was donated for capture by Steven Kaye and digitized as a part of Our Streets, Our Stories (OSOS), a community heritage project part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge. To see more images, ephemera and objects from this project, visit the Our Streets, Our Stories collection on our digital collections portal. To listen to oral histories and view transcripts, visit OSOS's oral history hub.
Interested in seeing more photos from CBH’s collections? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images, or the digital collections portal at Brooklyn Public Library. We look forward to inviting you to CBH in the future to research in our entire collection of images, archives, maps, and special collections. In the meantime, please visit our resources page to search our collections. Questions? Our reference staff is available to help with your research! You can reach us at [email protected].
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