![‘Together with a landscaped park and numerous playgrounds, the project covers twenty-five gross acres [over 10 hectares], formerly twelve slum blocks. The buildings, occupying only about 30 per cent of the gross area, are grouped into four super-blocks, formed by closing two through streets to traffic. Three blocks have six apartment houses each, the other has two houses, the new William J. Gaynor Junior High School, a park, and a playground. . . . The houses are placed at a fifteen-degree angle to the streets to orient the buildings toward the sun.’
Guidebook to the New York City written and published (WPA Federal Writers’ Project)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lcxdn7fcxeec4lw454ihzair/bafkreibfpvhsje55vztiuxq4da3jleeekrm5qyami5s6t7cgupkryotphu)
‘Together with a landscaped park and numerous playgrounds, the project covers twenty-five gross acres [over 10 hectares], formerly twelve slum blocks. The buildings, occupying only about 30 per cent of the gross area, are grouped into four super-blocks, formed by closing two through streets to traffic. Three blocks have six apartment houses each, the other has two houses, the new William J. Gaynor Junior High School, a park, and a playground. . . . The houses are placed at a fifteen-degree angle to the streets to orient the buildings toward the sun.’ Guidebook to the New York City written and published (WPA Federal Writers’ Project)
#OTD in 1933: #FDR's Executive Order 6252 creates the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA):
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#WilliamsburgHouses, #Brooklyn 1937-1939
20 4-story apartment houses accommodating 1,622 low-income families
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#urbanplanning #housing #WilliamLascaze #RichmondHShreve
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