About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2096
  • TitleNew boro settlement
  • SummaryTwo men in suits and woman with pearl necklace conferring over paper or document; wood paneled wall in background. Caption: "New boro settlement -- Mrs. Murray C. Bittner, president of the Williamsburg Settlement, confers with Domestic Relations Justice Nathaniel Kaplan, right, chairman of the New York City Youth Board, and Philip J. Cruise, chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, on tomorrow's opening of the Williamsburg-Marcy Settlement, 582 Park Ave., in the 1,700-family Marcy Houses. . . . . The new unit will serve 3,000 children."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 29, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; New York City Housing Authority stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSocial settlements
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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.