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Van Cortlandt Park ( & Saxon Avenue, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Van Cortlandt Park ( - Saxon Avenue, 1928

    Bronx: Van Cortlandt Park ( - Saxon Avenue

    1928

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Bronx: Van Cortlandt Park ( - Saxon Avenue, 1928

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Bronx: Van Cortlandt Park ( - Saxon Avenue

1928

Van Cortlandt Park South, at the S.E. corner of Saxon Ave., showing the technical and test building (structure with flags) of the Radio Corporation of America occupying that site. The view is southwestward from Mosholu Parkway South (foreground). May 8, 1928. P. L. Sperr.

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