Title: | Progress |
Description: | View of newly completed 14-story apartment buildings; foreground empty except for bare trees, lampposts and several automobiles and trucks. Caption on verso: "Progress: Rising above the flat surroundings of East New York's 'farm' section is the impressive silhouette of the Boulevard Housing Project, above, which was completed last May at the cost of $14,000,000. The 26-acre project, bordering Linden Boulevard, houses about 1,440 families . . ." |
Date: | 1951 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] East New York (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Feb. 26, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Public housing [5] |
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 0012 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/39b3f04ae75af9cdeb5c509718fd0451&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/East+New+York+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing