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  • Brooklyn: 5th Avenue - 1st Street, 1940

    Brooklyn: 5th Avenue - 1st Street

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: 5th Avenue - 1st Street, 1940

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Brooklyn: 5th Avenue - 1st Street

1940

5th Avenue, east side, north of First Street, showing the B. M. T. "El" thereon. Note the Garfield Theatre, at number 269 Fulton Street. June 14, 1940 P. L. Sperr

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