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Dunbar Apartments

Manhattan: 7th Avenue - 149th Street

Seventh Ave., west side, south from West 150th to 149th Streets. Building shown, is the'Paul Dunbar Apartments erected by Rockefeller interests.
March 6, 1937.
P. L. Sperr.
"This cooperation project, completed in 1928, was financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Monthly payments were fixed at an average of $14.50 a room, including upkeep and payments on principal. In 1936, Mr. Rockefeller foreclosed,reimbursing the former tenant-owners for their capital payments." New York Panorama - Federal Writers Project
page 433.

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