About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0013
  • TitleSituation to be curbed
  • SummaryView of 6-story and 14-story apartment buildings, with wet, muddy roadway and parking area in foreground; parked automobiles and scattered residents in front of buildings. Caption on verso: "Situation To Be Curbed: The muddy, water-filled streets near the Boulevard and Linden Projects, such as the intersection at Schenck and Stanley Aves., above, have caused much protest among East New York residents."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 20, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (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: Boulevard Houses