WILLOW AND POPLAR STREETS
Nos. 1-3-5-7-9 Poplar Street
MAY 14, 1936. ABBOTT FILE 119

On May 14, 1936, Abbott made eight photographs of houses in Brooklyn Heights. This view shows a row of pre-Civil War houses against the Manhattan skyline. At the end of Poplar Street is a holding tank for the adjacent Squibb pharmaceutical factory, a clear indication that these houses were too close to the industrial waterfront to be fashionable.

In 1950, this stretch of Poplar Street was demolished for the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the pedestrian Promenade, which cantilevers over it.

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