SummarySix men in suits and one woman grasping hands in celebration of sales for future housing project on site bounded by Myrtle Avenue, Ashland Place, and Willoughby Street. Caption on verso: "First Kingsview Apartment Buyers: Boro President Cashmore congratulates Mrs. Bessie Feinberg, center; Dr. Harry Feinberg, right, her cousin, and Solomon Seidman, second from right, first three to buy apartments in Kingsview Homes, Inc., co-operative housing project which will rise near Fort Greene Park. In rear, next to Cashmore, from left to right, are Horace O. Westmore, vice president of Brooklyn Branch, National City Bank, presenting check for $26,377 to Cashmore as first payment to city for land to be acquired; Frank D. Schroth Jr., assistant to the Brooklyn Eagle publisher and a Kingsview director, and Louis H. Pink, Kingsview president."
SubjectCashmore, John, 1895-1961 ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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