About This Item

  • TitleBorough apartment colony
  • Call NumberHOUS_0011
  • 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."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Sep. 9, 1951; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLangley, J. Alex.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gravesend (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.