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Columbia Heights, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Columbia Heights - Poplar Street, 1932

    Brooklyn: Columbia Heights - Poplar Street

    1932

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Columbia Heights - Poplar Street, 1932

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Brooklyn: Columbia Heights - Poplar Street

1932

58-62 Columbia Heights, from, but not including Poplar, to and including Middagh Streets. April 4, 1932. P. L. Sperr.

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