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Beach Avenue & Westchester Avenue, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Beach Avenue - Westchester Avenue, 1938

    Bronx: Beach Avenue - Westchester Avenue

    1938

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Bronx: Beach Avenue - Westchester Avenue, 1938

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Bronx: Beach Avenue - Westchester Avenue

1938

Beach Avenue, east side, north from near Westchester Avenue, showing the Atonement Protestant Episcopal Church. The clearance, in the right foreground, marks the course of the old Clason's Point Road. April 10, 1938 P. L. Sperr

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