Notable addition to Borough

Notable addition to Borough
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Title: Notable addition to Borough
Description:

Thirteen-story apartment building, with scaffolding around base; sign over scaffolding reads, "Clinton Hill Defense Housing"; two automobiles and pedestrian in foreground. Caption on verso: "Notable Addition to Borough: Three of the eleven units of Clinton Hill, the Equitable Life Assurance Society's defense housing, at Clinton and Willoughby Aves., will be ready for tenants in June. A renting office will be opened tomorrow morning at 209 Clinton Ave. A model apartment suite, furnished by Abraham & Straus, is now on view."

Date: 1943
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Clinton Hill (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Mar. 28, 1943.
Title from caption on verso.
Retouched.
Collection: Housing
Subject: Scaffolding
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 0032