Title: | Face-lifting for Brownsville |
Description: | Architectural rendering of housing project bounded by Rockaway, Stone, and Dumont Avenues; label at bottom reading "Brownsville Houses, Brooklyn N.Y., Fred'k G. Frost, John A. Thompson, Associated Architects". Caption on verso: "Face-Lifting for Brownsville: Brooklyn's first new State-aided housing project will arise in the heart of one of its most blighted areas. Brownsville houses, to be built at a cost of $8,983,700, will accommodate 1,338 low-income families." |
Date: | 1945 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Sep. 16, 1945; on verso; New York City Housing Authority stamp. Title from caption on verso. With 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. Renderings. |
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 0031 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/b7851867ae574113d084178c484872ca&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/p/Public housing