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Bushwick Avenue & Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn

4 historical photos taken here in 1937, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1937

    Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

    1937

  • Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1937

    Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

    1937

  • Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1937

    Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

    1937

  • Brooklyn: Metropolitan Avenue - Maspeth Avenue, 1937

    Brooklyn: Metropolitan Avenue - Maspeth Avenue

    1937

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Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1937

Photo 1 of 4 at Bushwick Avenue & Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Bushwick Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

1937

Broadway, at the East River, showing the toll house, vehicular entrance, slip and ferry of the Municipal Ferry to 23rd Street (Manhattan). This set, consisting of three views was taken at the same time. The bridge shown in No. 3 is the Queensboro. March 24, 1931. P.L. Sperr

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