Digging for better housing

Digging for better housing
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Title: Digging for better housing
Description:

Five dignitaries and two young boys at ground breaking ceremony for housing project in Greenpoint; large sign behind them reads, "This Project is part of the Low Rent Housing Program, Public Housing Administration"; onlookers in right background. Caption on verso: "Digging for Better Housing: Borough, city and Federal officials join with neighborhood kids to break ground for Cooper Park Houses, low-rent development on Morgan Ave., between Jackson and Withers St. Left to right at ceremony today are Gerald J. Carey, executive director of the City Housing Authority, Matthew Kortcamp, 4; Borough President Cashmore, John A. Kervick, field officer of the Public Housing Administration, Joseph Grey, 2; Park Commissioner Robert Moses, and Philip J. Cruise, chairman of the Housing Authority."

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Lambert, Al.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Aug. 10, 1951; "Eagle Staff photo by Lambert."
Title from caption on verso.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Housing
Subject: Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
Cashmore, John, 1895-1961.
Ground breaking ceremonies
Municipal officials and employees
Public housing
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: HOUS 0043