SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0030, HOUS 0028), some of which may also be described in this new record; Architectural rendering of housing project bounded by Rockaway, Stone, and Dumont Avenues; images identical except that 0031 has grease pencil cropping marks (others without cropping marks); 0028 and 0031 with label at bottom reading "Brownsville Houses, Brooklyn N.Y., Fred'k G. Frost, John A. Thompson, Associated Architects" (0030 without label). Caption on verso of 0031: "Face-Lifting for Brownsville: Brooklyn's first new State-aided housing project will arise in the heart of one of its most blighted areas. Brownsville houses, to be built at a cost of $8,983,700, will accommodate 1,338 low-income families."
NoteOn verso of 0031: date stamped: Sep. 16, 1945; on verso of 0030; New York City Housing Authority stamp. Title from caption on verso of 0031. 0031 with grease pencil cropping marks.
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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