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Ave. U & West St, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Ave. U - West St., 1910

    Brooklyn: Ave. U - West St.

    1910

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Ave. U - West St., 1910

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Brooklyn: Ave. U - West St.

1910

Avenue U, west from West Street, showing the B. M. T. Culver Line Elevated on McDonald Avenue, formerly Gravesend Avenue. About 1910 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

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