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Crescent Street & Danford Avenue, Brooklyn

2 historical photos taken here in 1922, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Crescent Street - Danford Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Crescent Street - Danford Avenue

    1922

  • Brooklyn: Crescent Street - Danford Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Crescent Street - Danford Avenue

    1922

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Brooklyn: Crescent Street - Danford Avenue, 1922

Photo 2 of 2 at Crescent Street & Danford Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Crescent Street - Danford Avenue

1922

(1) Crescent Street (elevator thereon), at the S.E. corner of Danford Ave., showing Shaw's hotel in a set of two views. This hotel was formerly on the S.E. Corner of Jamaica Ave. and Elderts Lane. In 1909 it was divided and moved to the sites seen in these views. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, at the S.W. corner of Hemlock and Danford Ave. June 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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