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Atlantic Avenue & Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Atlantic Avenue - Eastern Parkway, 1940

    Brooklyn: Atlantic Avenue - Eastern Parkway

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Atlantic Avenue - Eastern Parkway, 1940

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Brooklyn: Atlantic Avenue - Eastern Parkway

1940

Atlantic Avenue at Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. P. L. Sperr, photographer July 13, 1940

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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