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Battery Avenue & Poly Place, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Battery Avenue - Poly Place, 1935

    Brooklyn: Battery Avenue - Poly Place

    1935

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Brooklyn: Battery Avenue - Poly Place, 1935

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Brooklyn: Battery Avenue - Poly Place

1935

Battery Avenue, north from Poly Place, at Fort Hamilton, showing the W. P. A. conducting a highway and sewer project. On the left are some of the buildings of the U. S. Army Reservation, and on the right is the Polytechnic Preparatory School. September 26, 1935 Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

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