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Cooper Street & Central Avenue, Brooklyn

4 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1925, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue, 1922–1925

    Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue

    1922; 1925

  • Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue, 1922–1925

    Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue

    1922; 1925

  • Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue, 1923

    Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue

    1923

  • Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue, 1923

    Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue

    1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue, 1922–1925

Photo 2 of 4 at Cooper Street & Central Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Central Avenue

1922; 1925

(1) Cooper Street, at the S.E. corner of Central Ave., showing an old hotel razed in October 1925. (This property was once in the Van Voorhies family). 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, as seen from the opposite direction on Central Ave. January 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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