The newspaper clippings below all mention the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza in some form or fashion and they are a combination of clippings from both the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as well as some clippings I have obtained from my visit to the Brooklyn Historical Society. 

These are some newspaper clippings that I came across from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

The newspaper clipping above was created on Friday, April 24, 1931. In this section, the structures that would be cleared out can be seen through this viewpoint from a neighboring hotel, Hotel Touraine which looks onto the Brooklyn Bridge is discussed. This is a clear visualization of the pre-destruction area of what would be known as the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza in a short time period.

The clipping above was created on Friday, May 22nd, 1931, and it is a cartoon that I came across while looking for suitable clippings regarding the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza. Within the Arch like structure, there are a couple of things listed and they are: “Full Service for Nassau Subway Loop”, “Removal of Fulton Street Elevated”, “Better Rapid Transit”, “Plans for Brooklyn Bridge-Borough Plaza”, and on the weight which is no longer being supported by the arch like structure has “Transit Unification” written on it. It may be a political drawing as money and politics go hand in hand and this project definitely sucked in as much money as the City of Brooklyn could find in order to go on with the beautification of their beloved city.

This clipping was created on Sunday, January 31, 1937, and this is a perfect clipping and a gives a great visual aspect to allow one to know what was really going on in the Downtown Brooklyn area during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, which is very vital in understanding how that space changed over time.

This clipping was created on Saturday, February 19, 1938, and it very, extremely briefly speaks on the cost of the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza up until that moment, which according to this clipping is $4,500,000. I also see this clipping as important because it documents the change of the space a year and a couple of days later of the clipping above and even within a year there is a significant difference in the land.

And below are clippings I came across while at the Brooklyn Historical Society:

This clipping was actually published by The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which the Brooklyn Historical Society has a copy of, this article is dated on Tuesday, September 17, 1935. So just a day before the article below it, and two weeks before the 29th, when the third clipping was published.

This clipping, obtained from the Brooklyn Times Union created on Wednesday, September 18, 1935, talks about what is going on in the area that will soon be considered the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza. In this snippet, talks about how Borough President Ingersoll put in an application seeking permission to demolish the buildings that stand in the way of the grand plan of the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza.

Dated on Sunday, September 29th, 1935. In the beginning when little research was done on the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, on my end, from what I understood, when the idea or planning for the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza came into play, there was a design competition of some sort where numerous designers would send in their proposed design of the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza. And upon visiting the Brooklyn Historical Society, I came across this newspaper clipping, which to me was just confirmation of what I came across while researching.