About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0080
  • TitleHigh living
  • SummaryAerial view of street in Fort Greene, with parapet of roof in left foreground from which photo was taken. Caption on verso: "High Living: From the upper floors of the 13-story units in the Fort Greene project one can gaze upon more unobstructed space than is available to the usual apartment house dweller. View above, looking west on Auburn Place, shows vine-covered Cumberland Hospital at right, and beyond, the peaks of the Court-Montague, Chamber of Commerce and other sky-scraper business buildings of downtown Brooklyn."
  • Date1942
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Aug. 16, 1942. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Fort Greene