Arbor Day One boy with shovel and other African American children gathered around newly planted tree. Caption on verso: "Arbor Day: Frederick Ross, 6, of 101 N. Portland Ave., completing the task of tree planting which concluded Arbor Day exercises by veterans organizations and neighborhood, church, school and civic organizations in Fort Greene Housing yesterday."

Cumberland Street, east side, south from Park and Myrtle Avenue, showing part of the large area where Fort Greene Houses will be erected. On the left are buildings on Carlton Avenue, April 11, 1941. The Fort Greene Houses, a 15-building development, were built on this site in 1944. At right, buildings on the south side of Myrtle Avenue are visible behind the tracks of the Myrtle Avenue El.

“Park Avenue, north side, east from north Oxford to Cumberland Streets.” Buildings on the south side of Park Avenue (right) would be razed in 1941 for the development of the Fort Greene Houses, now the NYCHA Walt Whitman Houses. Buildings on the north side would also be demolished, to make way for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, first proposed in 1936 and completed in 1964.