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New York City--Queensbridge, N.Y.--5-2, built by New York City Housing Authority with USHA aid – Vintage Print

New York City--Queensbridge, N.Y.--5-2, built by New York City Housing Authority with USHA aid, [1942] — historic photograph
New York City--Queensbridge, N.Y.--5-2, built by New York City Housing Authority with USHA aid, [1942]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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New York City--Queensbridge, N.Y.--5-2, built by New York City Housing Authority with USHA aid

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Queensbridge Houses, in the Long Island City section of Queens, is the particular setting here, and the record names this building as "5-2," one of the blocks in the complex. The New York City Housing Authority built the development with aid from the United States Housing Authority under the federal housing legislation of the late 1930s. It was among the first public housing projects in the country and, for a time, one of the largest, meant to replace crowded tenements with low-rent apartments set among open courtyards. The print, dated around 1942, documents the new housing model during the years when the government was expanding public housing in the city.

Created / published[1942]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesNo. H-7732.
SubjectsApartment houses--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950. Housing--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,262 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180067

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