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Melville Street & Van Nest Avenue, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Melville Street - Van Nest Avenue, 1938

    Bronx: Melville Street - Van Nest Avenue

    1938

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Bronx: Melville Street - Van Nest Avenue, 1938

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Bronx: Melville Street - Van Nest Avenue

1938

Melville Street, east of Van Nest Avenue, showing the pedestrian bridge across the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks. The view is eastward. April 16, 1938. P. L. Sperr.

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