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Downing Street & Quincy Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Downing Street - Quincy Street, 1910

    Brooklyn: Downing Street - Quincy Street

    1910

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Brooklyn: Downing Street - Quincy Street, 1910

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Brooklyn: Downing Street - Quincy Street

1910

Downing Street, west side, at Quincy Street. the 4-story building is Nos. 6-8 Downing Street; its right hand portion and the vacant lots adjoining it, correspond to the course of the Clove Road, which was also known as "the old road to Bedford". The frame houses in the background, front on Grand Ave. About 1910. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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