Gravesend: view looking east on Gravesend Neck Road from the elevated Culver Line train tracks. Back yards of houses on the north side of Neck Road between Gravesend Avenue (now McDonald Avenue) and Village Road East visible. Gravesend Reformed Dutch Church partially visible.

New York photographer and local historian born in Baden-Baden, Germany; emigrated to the United States 1882 and lived in Brooklyn, New York. Armbruster photographed historic houses, churches, streetscapes, and buildings throughout New York City, and some of the images he created served to illustrate pamphlets he wrote on the local history of the area.