About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0020
  • TitleFirst tenants get keys to Brevoort Houses
  • SummaryThree men and one woman standing in front of door at housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Caption on verso: "First Tenants Get Keys to Brevoort Houses: As first section of new low-rent housing project opens, Willie and Ella Boyce, right, get keys from project manager, Harvey Bernstein, center, while Alfred Castellano, super, left, looks on. Boyce is employe of Brooklyn Industrial Home for Blind (though not blind himself). He and his wife have nine-year-old daughter, Dolores, and will pay $44.25 monthly for four rooms."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 3, 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Housing: Brevoort House