About This Item
- TitleBrooklyn after the War, no. 2
- Call NumberHOUS_0024
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryView of architectural model for housing project bounded by Rockaway, Stone, and Dumont Avenues. Caption on verso: "Brooklyn After the War, No. 2: Brownsville Housing Project, a unit of 27 buildings to be built to house 1,338 lower-income families. Development will cost $7,866,000 and cover 200,000 square feet, exclusive of parks. Buildings will be three to six stories high and contain a nursery school for the use of tenants."
- Date1944
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 4, 1944. Title from caption on verso.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectArchitectural models -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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.