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[Plaza in front of housing project]

[Plaza in front of housing project]
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Title: [Plaza in front of housing project]
Description:

View of six-story apartment building in newly completed housing project north of Fort Greene Park; pedestrians sitting on benches or milling about on plaza in foreground; larger apartment building rising behind foreground building.
Date: 1942
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.) [3]
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Sep. 6, 1942.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Housing [4]
Subject: Plazas [5]
Public housing [6]
Apartment houses [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 0074
 
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[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Fort+Greene+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Plazas
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/Apartment houses