Flashback Friday: Selling Roof Pitch At The Fort Greene Houses

Flashback Friday: Selling Roof Pitch At The Fort Greene Houses
Image via Brownstone Detectives via Brooklyn Historical Society.
Image via Brownstone Detectives via Brooklyn Historical Society.

The Fort Greene Houses — now known as the Ingersoll and Walt Whitman Houses — were completed in 1944 and considered a pioneering development for urban renewal and addressing the housing crisis. Nowadays, of course, the housing crisis has just evolved into something new.

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