About This Item

  • TitleSite of new housing project
  • Call NumberHOUS_0016
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of construction site after ground clearing, showing piles driven into ground and pile drivers at right and center; inset photograph at top (4 x 7 in.) shows four men standing by pipe discharging water on open field. Caption on verso: "Site of New Housing Project: Pile driver pounds away at one of 3,100 creosoted wooden piles on which will rise some of the 32 buildings in 1,597-apartment Breukelen Houses, along Flatlands Ave. at Louisiana Ave. Inset shows last of sand being pumped into low-lying former swampland from dredge out in Jamaica Bay."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Nov. 5, 1950; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBuilding construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Pile drivers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Dredging -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceCanarsie (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.