About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0108
  • TitleGowanus Houses
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0110), some of which may also be described in this new record; View of housing project under construction at site bounded by Hoyt, Bond, Douglass, and Wyckoff Streets; completed nine-story building in right foreground; half completed building rising behind it; steam shovel and construction sheds and debris in middle ground.
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso of 0108. On verso of 0110: date inscribed: 1948; New York City Housing Authority stamp.
  • CreatorNew York City Housing Authority
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Building construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBoerum Hill (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Gowanus Houses