When A Hut Was A Home

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #166

For this piece I have to credit Brownstone Detectives, a blog/social media account that tells the stories of various, seemingly nondescript buildings in New York City. In one of their latest posts, they wrote about Quonset huts in Brooklyn.

Typically, when we think of postwar housing, we think of Levittown and other developments featuring small but moder…