Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryView 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."
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