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5th Street & Rodney Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: 5th Street (South) - Rodney Street, 1935

    Brooklyn: 5th Street (South) - Rodney Street

    1935

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Brooklyn: 5th Street (South) - Rodney Street, 1935

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Brooklyn: 5th Street (South) - Rodney Street

1935

South 5th Street, south side, at Rodney Street, viewing west and across the latter (truck) from near Keap St. and showing a W. P. A. street improvement project. On the left is St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church. September 25, 1935 Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

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