Title: | Hopeful home-hunters |
Description: | Long line of people, mostly African American, waiting on weedy sidewalk next to chainlink fence, behind which a high-rise apartment building is under construction; construction shed at left. Caption on verso: "Hopeful Home-Hunters: Scene shows line formed by applicants for apartments in the 839-unit low-rent Albany Houses, Park Place and Albany Ave. Those selected on a basis of comparative need must have low incomes. Rents in the six-house, 14-story project will range from $30.50 for two rooms to $42 for five rooms." |
Date: | 1949 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Sep. 29, 1949; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Public housing [5] Queues [6] Building construction [7] |
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 0001 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/acabdccbe84e81fbc8d4e6c040fa01b2&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Crown+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/q/Queues
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Building construction