From the Architectural League's Urban Omnibus:
The Tudor Plain
Tudor Revival row houses on East 31st Street at Avenue R, Brooklyn, in 1929
Fred Trump was the last great builder of the interwar years in outer-borough New York City. He did well enough in the 1920s, but really hit pay dirt in Depression-era Brooklyn, where he ably exploited a Federal Housing Administration program that insured mortgages. With federal winds filling his sails, Trump erected some 2,000 homes in the borough between 1935 and 1942 — in East Flatbush, Marine Park, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brighton Beach... Trump’s houses were cozy, well made, and — more than anything — affordable even to working-class families....
from the Washington Post:
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How Donald Trump abandoned his father’s middle-class housing empire for luxury building: The very different lives and legacies of two Trump builders in New York