About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2470
  • TitlePrivate enterprise
  • SummaryTwo-story brick row house in Mill Basin; nursery tree awaiting planting in foreground; construction dirt and debris on lawn and sidewalk. Caption: "Private enterprise -- Home construction is not limited to public housing projects, particularly in southernmost sections of the borough, such as Mill Basin where private builders are spreading attractive garden apartments on once-vacant landscape. Development shown is Avenue T and Pearson St."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 27, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorCastle, Ted
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRow houses ; Building, Brick ; Housing development ; Trees
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Mill Basin (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: Mill Basin: Neighborhoods