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[Four apartment towers under construction]

[Four apartment towers under construction]
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Title: [Four apartment towers under construction]
Description:

View of four thirteen-story apartment towers nearing completion in housing project north of Fort Greene Park; one worker on scaffold at tenth-floor window; three other workers on ground amid construction debris.
Date: 1942
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.) [3]
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Aug. 16, 1942.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Retouched.
Collection: Housing [4]
Subject: Public housing [5]
Building construction [6]
High-rise apartment buildings [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 0071
 
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[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/High-rise apartment buildings