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Cumberland Street & Park Avenue, Brooklyn

8 historical photos taken here between 1940 and 1941, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue, 1940

    Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue

    1940

  • Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue, 1940

    Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue

    1940

  • Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Cumberland Street, 1940

    Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Cumberland Street

    1940

  • Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Cumberland Street, 1941

    Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Cumberland Street

    1941

  • Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue, 1941

    Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue

    1941

  • Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Cumberland Street, 1941

    Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Cumberland Street

    1941

  • Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue, 1941

    Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue

    1941

  • Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Cumberland Street, 1941

    Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Cumberland Street

    1941

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue, 1940

Photo 1 of 8 at Cumberland Street & Park Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Cumberland Street - Park Avenue

1940

Cumberland Street, east side, south from (No. 101) a point midway between Park and Myrtle Avenues, looking toward the latter. The auto parking space is the former site of the Brooklyn Cancer Institute. View 2 is south across the Myrtle Avenue elevated trestle. These buildings were later demolished and the site made part of Fort Greene Houses, a low-rent city housing center. October 10, 1940 Views 1,2 P. L. Sperr

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