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| Title: | [Aerial view of Fort Greene] |
| Description: | Aerial view of Fort Greene toward Brooklyn Navy Yard, showing part of Fort Greene Park at lower right and blocks north of the park to be razed for construction of high-rise housing project; Caption on verso of HOUS 0084: "The first of the proposed housing and recreation projects in Brooklyn submitted by Park Commissioner Moses consists of clearing a considerable part of the Navy Yard district, aerial view of which is shown above. Moses characterized the section as one of the worst slum districts in the city." |
| Date: | 1938 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing [4]
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| Subject: |
New York Naval Shipyard. [5] Public housing [6] |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Aerial photographs. |
| 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 0073 |