Instant urban renewal
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Instant urban renewal
July 27, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 18.2 x 23.4 cm (7 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0058
Inscriptions recto (printed): (HU1) TRENTON, N.J., July 27 -- INSTANT URBAN RENEWAL -- Mayor Carmen J. / Armenti takes to streets of city slum neighborhood, ordering house- / to-house cleanup by landlords and public works department. The mayor / moved his office to a streetcorner Wednesday, saying he was tired / of federal red tape on urban renewal projects. He says he intends to / use unearmarked federal funds and "if they don't like it let them / take me to the Supreme Court." Armenti, on second day of crash renewal / program, (far right) talks with tenement family. (AP Wirephoto)
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