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Children Playing on the Sidewalk; One Third of a Nation

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Children at play on Water Street and Jackson Street across from Corlears Hook Park, 1938.

These buildings would soon be demolished ahead of the construction of the Vladek Houses, a New York City Housing Authority development. Construction on the Vladek houses, named for NYCHA board member Baruch Charney Vladeck, stated in September, 1939 and was completed in November, 1940.

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