Face-lifting for Brownsville
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| Title: | Face-lifting for Brownsville |
| Description: | Architectural rendering of housing project bounded by Rockaway, Stone, and Dumont Avenues; label at bottom reading "Brownsville Houses, Brooklyn N.Y., Fred'k G. Frost, John A. Thompson, Associated Architects". Caption on verso: "Face-Lifting for Brownsville: Brooklyn's first new State-aided housing project will arise in the heart of one of its most blighted areas. Brownsville houses, to be built at a cost of $8,983,700, will accommodate 1,338 low-income families." |
| Date: | 1945 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Sep. 16, 1945; on verso; New York City Housing Authority stamp. Title from caption on verso. With grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Public housing |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Renderings. |
| 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 0031 |
