About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0012
  • TitleProgress
  • SummaryView of newly completed 14-story apartment buildings; foreground empty except for bare trees, lampposts and several automobiles and trucks. Caption on verso: "Progress: Rising above the flat surroundings of East New York's 'farm' section is the impressive silhouette of the Boulevard Housing Project, above, which was completed last May at the cost of $14,000,000. The 26-acre project, bordering Linden Boulevard, houses about 1,440 families . . ."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 26, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (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: Boulevard Houses