About This Item

  • TitleNotable addition to Borough
  • Call NumberHOUS_0032
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThirteen-story apartment building, with scaffolding around base; sign over scaffolding reads, "Clinton Hill Defense Housing"; two automobiles and pedestrian in foreground. Caption on verso: "Notable Addition to Borough: Three of the eleven units of Clinton Hill, the Equitable Life Assurance Society's defense housing, at Clinton and Willoughby Aves., will be ready for tenants in June. A renting office will be opened tomorrow morning at 209 Clinton Ave. A model apartment suite, furnished by Abraham & Straus, is now on view."
  • Date1943
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar. 28, 1943. Title from caption on verso. Retouched.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectScaffolding -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Clinton Hill (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.