1939

Manhattan: Monroe Street - Tompkins Avenue

Monroe Street, north side, east from a point slightly east of Scammel Street, showing several tenement units separated by previous demolitions. These are shortly to follow as shown in View 2. Upon this site will rise the government sponsored public housing project, Vladeck Houses. The two four story buildings in the foreground of the earlier photo, bear No's. 237-39. 1: April 25, 1939 2: June 24, 1939 P. L. SPERR

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection