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Skyline and Manhattan Bridge ramp viewed from Canal Street, October 1940.
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Kosher meat market on the Lower East Side of New York, circa 1958.
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NYCHA chairman William Reid poses with the wrecking ball which is about to knock down the Polo Grounds, playing field for the New York Giants baseball team, to make way for a new housing project, Polo Grounds Towers, circa 1964.
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The kitchen of a tenement on the future site of Elliott Houses in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, 1941.
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Police community relations officers demonstrate to bemused senior citizens what to do if grabbed around the neck from behind by a mugger, circa 1970.
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Mayor Abraham Beame speaks at the 1974 ceremony welcoming new tenants to the Amsterdam Addition. From left, City Councilman Henry Stern, Representative Bella Abzug, Beame, and NYCHA chairman Joseph Christian.
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An aerial shot of Manhattan that spotlights the newly constructed wall of public housing on the East River -- Lillian Wald and Jacob Riis -- and the middle-class private city at the right, Stuyvesant Town, circa 1949.
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A classroom for immigrants learning to speak English probably at Red Hook Houses community center in Brooklyn, September 24, 1940. Is that Hyman Kaplan at the back of the room?
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From the Bowery stop on the elevated, an aerial view straight along East Broadway, under the Manhattan Bridge approach, past The Jewish Daily Forward building (at center, rear) toward the Williamsburg Bridge in the distance,1930s.
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Mothers and babies at a well-baby center, about 1937-38, at an unspecified project that is probably Williamsburg Houses.
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Two housing assistants train in case work, learning how to deal with tenants at the developments, February 1950. At right, role playing a housing assistant is Edith Reid. The tenant is acted by Vera Bloch.
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The NYCHA chair, Philip J. Cruise, speaks at the dedication ceremonies for Baruch Houses, August 19, 1953. From left: Governor Thomas Dewey, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard Baruch, Francis Cardinal Spellman, and Mayor Vincent Impellitteri.
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Bernard Baruch spoke at the ground-breaking ceremonies for Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side, April 8, 1952. The project was named after his father, Dr. Simon Baruch, a public health pioneer who built the first public baths in the U.S. in 1901.
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Louis Marinoff, chief photographer of the NYCHA Photography Unit, circa 1951-52. Marinoff started photographing for the Authority in 1944 and continued into the 1970s.
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NYCHA employees exhibit a taste for rebellion, circa 1960.
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Tenement kitchen in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, August 26, 1941.
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Susan Wagner, wife of Mayor Wagner, and NYCHA chairman William Reid designate a block in Manhattan as 'Public Housing Square,' circa 1960.
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Building being demolished in East Harlem, 1930s.
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Monroe Street, between Jefferson and Clinton, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, 1950.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the First Lady, talks to 4-year-old Jacqueline Bailey, who presented flowers at the dedication of the cultural and recreation center at Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side (East Village), 1966.
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Workmen emptying a building at 49 Johnson Street on Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, post office in the background, 1936. These buildings were demolished eventually but not to build public housing.
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Pomonok Houses in Flushing, Queens, shortly after its completion in 1952.
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Demolition work at Ten Eyck Street and Manhattan Avenue, clearing site for Williamsburg Houses, 1936.
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Living quarters in store at 193 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, 1935, site of future Williamsburg Houses.
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Behind 193 Manhattan Avenue, future site of the P.W.A. project, Williamsburg Houses, is an outdoor privy, 1935..
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Tenements in downtown Manhattan on Chambers Street behind the Municipal Building and the U.S. Courthouse, circa 1939.
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Store on West 63rd Street in Manhattan in the 1940s, shortly before the area was razed to build Amsterdam Houses.
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Children playing sandlot baseball in East Harlem, 1951, on the site of the soon-to-be-built public housing, Jefferson Houses.
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Aerial view of Fort Greene Houses, Brooklyn, 1946.
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Jackie Robinson dedicates a playground at Fort Greene Houses in Brooklyn, 1959.
