Title: | Brooklyn after the War, no. 2 |
Description: | View of architectural model for housing project bounded by Rockaway, Stone, and Dumont Avenues. Caption on verso: "Brooklyn After the War, No. 2: Brownsville Housing Project, a unit of 27 buildings to be built to house 1,338 lower-income families. Development will cost $7,866,000 and cover 200,000 square feet, exclusive of parks. Buildings will be three to six stories high and contain a nursery school for the use of tenants." |
Date: | 1944 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: May 4, 1944. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Architectural models [5] Public housing [6] |
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 0024 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/5568f36b38a109bb842ace86a867f2fc&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brownsville+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/Architectural models
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing