SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0131), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five officials gathered around model of housing project in Fort Greene; images identical except that 0131 lacks retouching and cropping marks. Caption on verso of 0130: "Model Wins Approval of Experts: Eight-foot square full scale model of the 20-acre Fort Greene rehabilitation development area, unveiled yesterday on the ground floor of the Dime Savings Bank, Fulton St. and Dekalb Ave., by City Controller Lawrence Gerosa. Looking on are, left to right, George C. Johnson, president of the bank; Louis H. Pink, president of the Kingsview Homes, Inc., builder of the 14 and 15-story apartment buildings being built on the site; Robert E. Blum, vice president of Abraham & Straus and president of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; Horace O. Westman, vice president of the National City Bank of New York, and Robert Moses, City Construction Co-ordinator and chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Slum Clearance."
NoteOn verso of 0131: date stamped: Aug. 16, 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso of 0130. 0130 retouched, with grease pencil cropping marks.
SubjectMoses, Robert, 1888-1981 ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Architectural models -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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