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Brooklyn: 79th Street - 21st Avenue
1925

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Brooklyn: 79th Street - 21st Avenue

1925

2103 79th Street, north side, east of Twenty-first Ave., showing on the Ave., from left to right, two 4-story apartment houses known as "Shirley" and "Elaine Courts." March 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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