Title: | Site of new housing project |
Description: | View of construction site after ground clearing, showing piles driven into ground and pile drivers at right and center; inset photograph at top (4 x 7 in.) shows four men standing by pipe discharging water on open field. Caption on verso: "Site of New Housing Project: Pile driver pounds away at one of 3,100 creosoted wooden piles on which will rise some of the 32 buildings in 1,597-apartment Breukelen Houses, along Flatlands Ave. at Louisiana Ave. Inset shows last of sand being pumped into low-lying former swampland from dredge out in Jamaica Bay." |
Date: | 1950 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Canarsie (New York, N.Y.) [3] Jamaica Bay (N.Y.) [4] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Nov. 5, 1950; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched. |
Collection: | Housing [5]
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Subject: |
Building construction [6] Public housing [7] Pile drivers [8] Dredging [9] |
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 0016 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/3c69644acb4e54d064174b4aab934954&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Canarsie+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Jamaica+Bay+%28N.Y.%29
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Building construction
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Pile drivers
[9] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/d/Dredging