Event Registration

President Franklin Roosevelt employed millions through his New Deal programs to build public works during the Great Depression. In Red Hook, the New Deal built housing, a pool, a recreation center, and a large new park. Dr. Ann Rothstein Segan, Research Associate of the Living New Deal, and daughter of renowned documentary photographer Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), will talk about her father’s in-depth 1942 photo essay documenting life in the new community for one of FDR's New Deal agencies. City planner and public housing specialist Brodie Hefner will discuss the origins of the largest public housing development in Brooklyn, and the Housing Authority’s half-billion-dollar project to revitalize the property with innovative resiliency measures in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.