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Crown Street & New York Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Crown Street - New York Avenue, 1930

    Brooklyn: Crown Street - New York Avenue

    1930

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Crown Street - New York Avenue, 1930

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Brooklyn: Crown Street - New York Avenue

1930

Crown Street, southside, between New York and Nostrand Avenues, showing Public School No. 161. Board of Education of the City of New York early 1930's

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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