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8th Street & Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: 8th Street (South) - Driggs Avenue, 1931

    Brooklyn: 8th Street (South) - Driggs Avenue

    1931

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: 8th Street (South) - Driggs Avenue, 1931

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Brooklyn: 8th Street (South) - Driggs Avenue

1931

South 8th Street, north side, just west of Driggs Avenue, showing Public School NO. 166. Board of Education of the City of New York June 24, 1931

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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