Face-lifting for Brownsville

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
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