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La Guardia and Wagner Archives Photo Exhibit


The Liberals Behind Public Housing



The little girl is looking at the camera, but NYCHA chairman William Reid, Mayor Robert F. Wagner (second and third from left) and other officials at the ground breaking for Luna Park Houses on Coney Island, Brooklyn, seem to be taking their cue from the man at left, July 10, 1958. Robert Moses, the city Park Commissioner since 1934 as well as construction coordinator, wielded immense power over public housing in the 1950s. ID# 02.003.27279