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Cumberland Street & Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Flushing Avenue, 1925

    Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Flushing Avenue

    1925

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Flushing Avenue, 1925

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Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Flushing Avenue

1925

Cumberland Street, east side, north from No. 37, seen in the foreground, is just south of Flushing Ave. Upon the vacant lot once stood the Boughton farmhouse. April, 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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