Title: | New apartment project |
Description: | Architectural rendering of housing project in Crown Heights. Caption on verso: "New Apartment Project: This is architect's drawing of Albany Houses, low-rent Brooklyn development for which plans were filed today with the Housing and Buildings Department. The project, to be built by the New York City Housing Authority with State co-operation, will cost $8,255,000, and the six 14-story buildings will accommodate 829 families. It will occupy the area bounded by Albany, St. Mark's and Troy Aves. and Park Place. Architects are Fellheimer, Wagner and Vollmer." |
Date: | 1948 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: June 23, 1948. Grease pencil cropping marks on 0003. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Fellheimer & Wagner. [5] Public housing [6] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Renderings. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
ID: | HOUS 0003 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/8eab6ed3a96bb75c6c58b211bfb115f5&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Crown+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fellheimer %26 Wagner.
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing