We're not fooling you today! 👌 Up to 15 students who live in Williamsburg Houses are awarded $5,000 towards their education each year thanks to the Inspired Path Forward Scholarship 💡
Apply today at learnmore.scholarsapply.org/inspired
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The Inspired Path Forward Scholarship is open for Williamsburg Houses residents! 💡
Apply today at learnmore.scholarsapply.org/inspired
#williamsburghouses #ScholarshipOpportunities #brooklyn #williamsburg
community that brings with it a new vision of democracy and of progress,” he said, “[this development has] qualities that no money can buy."’
- WPA Federal Writers’ Project Guidebook to NYC
#urbanplanning #housing #PWA #WilliamsburgHouses #Brooklyn
![‘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
@LivingNewDeal
#urbanplanning #housing #WilliamLascaze #RichmondHShreve
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Watch how thirteen-year-old Josh Baskin learns what it means to grow up in this free screening of Big for Williamsburg Houses residents! 🤔🔮 🧒➡️🧑🤯
Check out more events in the second image 😎
#freescreening #summerfun #northbrooklyn #williamsburghouses @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social
Our free movie night for Williamsburg Houses residents was next level! 🎮🐍🐒
Interested in more community special events? Check out more upcoming summer events in the third image!
#freemovie #northbrooklyn #williamsburg #JumanjiTheNextLevel #williamsburghouses #summerevents
The Inspired Path Forward Scholarship Application closes tomorrow April 22nd at 4pm ET!
Open to Williamsburg Houses residents. up to 15 students are awarded $5,000 towards their education each year.
Apply today: learnmore.scholarsapply.org/inspired
#williamsburghouses #northbrooklyn
A scholarship recipient smiles for the camera. The image is overlaid on a graphic with the scholarship application information and a quote for the awarded student. The logo for Williamsburg Houses is visible on top.
Check out Elliot's story!
Apply today: learnmore.scholarsapply.org/inspired
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