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  • Brooklyn: 3rd Avenue - between 74th Street and 73rd Street., 1936

    Brooklyn: 3rd Avenue - between 74th Street and 73rd Street.

    1936

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Brooklyn: 3rd Avenue - between 74th Street and 73rd Street., 1936

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Brooklyn: 3rd Avenue - between 74th Street and 73rd Street.

1936

Fourth Ave., west side, between 74th and 73rd Streets, showing the church and buildings of the Parish of Our Lady of Angels R.C. December 17, 1936. P. L. Sperr.

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