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  • TitlePlan Fort Greene development
  • Call NumberHOUS_0133
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFour officials holding large architectural rendering of future housing project in Fort Greene. Caption on verso: "Plan Fort Greene Development: Officers of Kingsview Homes meet City Construction Co-ordinator Robert Moses to study plans for co-operative 276-unit apartment house project and development of entire 30-acre Fort Greene area in downtown Brooklyn, including Brooklyn Hospital extension and Long Island University campus. Board of Estimate has just approved Kingsview Homes agreement. Left to right Thomas Grace, vice president of Kingsview; Moses; Gerard Swope, Kingsview board chairman, and Louis H. Pink, president ."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 24, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMoses, Robert, 1888-1981 ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.