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Clarkson Avenue & 53rd Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Clarkson Avenue - 53rd Street, 1925

    Brooklyn: Clarkson Avenue - 53rd Street

    1925

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Brooklyn: Clarkson Avenue - 53rd Street, 1925

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Brooklyn: Clarkson Avenue - 53rd Street

1925

Clarkson Ave., at the N.W. corner of East 53rd Street, showing the William Schenck farmhouse, still in existence in (1929). Street not paved at this date. The estate contained about eight square blocks. March 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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