Online Exhibit: The New Deal in New York City, 1933—1943 at the Roosevelt House
Deborah Gardner, a founding member of the Living New Deal New York City Chapter’s Working Group, and Roosevelt House Historian, curated an exhibit at the Roosevelt House.
Family in tenement kitchen with coal burning stove (firebox on the right). The stand behind it is holding a galvanized iron water tank and the black unit on the side of the tank is a gas fired water heater with copper pipes inside. There was no safety or pilot system. This family moved to the Kingsborough Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1941.Modern kitchen in the Kingsborough Houses with Mayor LaGuardia and Gerard Swope, Chair of NYCHA. 1941.
