About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0008
  • TitleGood news for home seekers
  • SummaryNewly-completed housing project with gravel road between rows, some building materials, and two trees; three parked automobiles in foreground. Caption: "Good news for home seekers--Here are some of the 79 completed houses in the first unit of 349 being built by Fred C. Trump in the Bensonhurst section of the borough, adjoining Bensonhurst Park and fronting Gravesend Bay, at Cropsey and 20th Aves. Most of the finished houses have been sold, Mr. Trump states."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDamaged slightly on left and right sides. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 20, 1946. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAutomobiles ; Dwellings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBath Beach (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: Bath Beach: General