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Gun Hill Road & Decatur Avenue, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Gun Hill Road (East) - Decatur Avenue, 1928

    Bronx: Gun Hill Road (East) - Decatur Avenue

    1928

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Bronx: Gun Hill Road (East) - Decatur Avenue, 1928

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Bronx: Gun Hill Road (East) - Decatur Avenue

1928

East Gunhill Road (running from extreme right directly in front of 2-story brick house, to extreme left on which elevated structure is seen), east from Decatur Ave., as viewed from the hill at the N.E. corner of the latter Ave. The two buildings seen in the center of the view around which the elevated structure bends southward on Webster Ave. bears Nos. 3488 and 3490 on the latter. The elevated is the shuttle line between the Third Ave. line at East 210th Street and the White Plains Road subway of the I.R.T. system. June 6, 1928. P. L. Sperr.

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