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Briggs Avenue & East 202nd Street, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Briggs Avenue - 202nd Street (East), 1937

    Bronx: Briggs Avenue - 202nd Street (East)

    1937

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Bronx: Briggs Avenue - 202nd Street (East), 1937

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Bronx: Briggs Avenue - 202nd Street (East)

1937

Briggs Avenue, north from E. 202nd Street, showing, on the east side of the Avenue, the new basketball court of Public School No.8, built by the Works Progress Administration. October 29, 1937 W.P.A. Photo Five Boroughs Project

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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