During our visit, we found most of our information on Farragut Houses from the old newspaper articles which was presented there. We found the information on the cost of the housing, how many families that they were planning to locate there and how many families and small businesses had to move out of the area to make this happen. It also presents the information about why the housing was planned, which is to solve the borough’s acute housing shortage. It made me rethink the reason behind why the housing was built which I first thought to be make the neighborhood cleaner and denser per square feet and to create more open land only. Now I can see that they also did try to reduce the housing shortage of the borough. It is good to see that they had a vision to improve the community.

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I used the NYPL digital collection as my source since it is one of the largest digital collection on the web. I first tried to search for Farragut houses on all these digital archives which we were given to choose but none of them has any information on Farragut houses. So I did my blog search on “public housing” New York since i can related to Farragut houses and Pruitt-Igoe. I found a picture and it showed some information on why they built public housings and what it was meant for the people who were going to live there.  It basically meant to get rid of the slums from the neighborhood and give people living there to move to a better, newer, cleaner, tall buildings with facilities and recreational areas as well as wee see at Farragut Houses and also in the ” The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”. In general, it is meant for the well being of the people and the neighborhood. But it is not always a success as we saw in Pruitt-Igoe, and in Farragut houses case, i have to rate it 6 out of 10.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/006c96f0-45c0-0132-169d-58d385a7b928

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