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Church Avenue & East 48th Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Church Avenue - 48th Street (East), 1923

    Brooklyn: Church Avenue - 48th Street (East)

    1923

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Brooklyn: Church Avenue - 48th Street (East), 1923

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Brooklyn: Church Avenue - 48th Street (East)

1923

Church Ave., at the N.E. corner of East 48th Street, showing Public School No. 135, which was razed in 1926. In the foreground, is the Church Ave., Trolley Line. Note the unfinished Street. March 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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