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Ashland Place & Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Ashland Place - Lafayette Avenue, 1941

    Brooklyn: Ashland Place - Lafayette Avenue

    1941

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Ashland Place - Lafayette Avenue, 1941

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Brooklyn: Ashland Place - Lafayette Avenue

1941

Ashland Place, at the northwest corner of Lafayette Avenue, showing the Hotel Grenda. The view is west from Fulton Street. P. L. Sperr August 20, 1941

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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