First Kingsview apartment buyers

First Kingsview apartment buyers
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Title: First Kingsview apartment buyers
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Six men in suits and one woman grasping hands in celebration of sales for future housing project on site bounded by Myrtle Avenue, Ashland Place, and Willoughby Street. Caption on verso: "First Kingsview Apartment Buyers: Boro President Cashmore congratulates Mrs. Bessie Feinberg, center; Dr. Harry Feinberg, right, her cousin, and Solomon Seidman, second from right, first three to buy apartments in Kingsview Homes, Inc., co-operative housing project which will rise near Fort Greene Park. In rear, next to Cashmore, from left to right, are Horace O. Westmore, vice president of Brooklyn Branch, National City Bank, presenting check for $26,377 to Cashmore as first payment to city for land to be acquired; Frank D. Schroth Jr., assistant to the Brooklyn Eagle publisher and a Kingsview director, and Louis H. Pink, Kingsview president."

Date: 1953
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Kruh, Johnny.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Jul. 9, 1953; photographer's inscription; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Housing
Subject: Cashmore, John, 1895-1961.
Public housing
Apartment dwellers
Municipal officials and employees
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 0134