Borough apartment colony
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| Title: | Borough apartment colony |
| Description: | View of apartment complex in Gravesend, showing adjacent highways and housing; subway rail yards at top. Caption on verso: "Borough Apartment Colony: Aerial view of the 1,860-family Beach Haven at Brighton rental development just completed by Fred Trump, builder, on a four-acre tract at Ocean and Belt Parkways . . . The colonly, designed as a self-contained community from plans by Seelig & Finkelstein, architects, features 31 six-story elevator structures occupying only 20 percent of the site, an air-conditioned shopping center and underground garage facilities for approximately 900 cars." |
| Date: | 1951 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Gravesend (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Langley, J. Alex. |
| More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Sep. 9, 1951; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Public housing |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Aerial views. |
| 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 0011 |
