About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0102
  • TitleNew low cost housing
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0104), some of which may also be described in this new record; Architectural rendering of housing project (Gravesend Houses) bounded by Neptune Avenue, Bayview Avenue, and West 33rd Street; label at lower left reads, "Gravesend Houses, New York City Housing Authority, M. W. Del Gaudio, Architect." Caption on verso of 0104 (copy 1): "New Low Cost Housing: Gravesend Houses, now near completion alongside Coney Island Creek."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteOn verso of 0104 (copy 1): date stamped: Nov. 12, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; New York City Housing Authority stamp. Title from caption on verso of 0104 (copy 1). 0104 (copy 1) with grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorNew York City Housing Authority
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gravesend (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: Gravesend Houses