About This Item
- TitleNew apartment project
- Call NumberHOUS_0006
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0003, HOUS 0005), some of which may also be described in this new record; Architectural rendering of housing project in Crown Heights. Caption on verso: "New Apartment Project: This is architect's drawing of Albany Houses, low-rent Brooklyn development for which plans were filed today with the Housing and Buildings Department. The project, to be built by the New York City Housing Authority with State co-operation, will cost $8,255,000, and the six 14-story buildings will accommodate 829 families. It will occupy the area bounded by Albany, St. Mark's and Troy Aves. and Park Place. Architects are Fellheimer, Wagner and Vollmer."
- Date1948
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
- NoteTitle from caption on verso of 0003. On verso of 0003: date stamped: June 23, 1948. New York City Housing Authority stamp on verso of 0005. Grease pencil cropping marks on 0003; images otherwise identical.
- CreatorNew York City Housing Authority ; Fellheimer & Wagner
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectFellheimer & Wagner ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.