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Prospect Avenue & Macy Place, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Prospect Avenue - Macy Place, 1938

    Bronx: Prospect Avenue - Macy Place

    1938

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Bronx: Prospect Avenue - Macy Place, 1938

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Bronx: Prospect Avenue - Macy Place

1938

Prospect Avenue (right), at the S.E. corner of Macy Place, showing the Machtzikel Talmud Torah Torath Moses Synagogue. April 26, 1938 P. L. Sperr.

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