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Emmons Avenue & Coyle Street, Brooklyn

4 historical photos taken here between 1923 and 1940, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street, 1923

    Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street

    1923

  • Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street, 1923–1928

    Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street

    1923; 1928

  • Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street, 1940

    Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street

    1940

  • Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street, 1940

    Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street, 1923–1928

Photo 2 of 4 at Emmons Avenue & Coyle Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - Coyle Street

1923; 1928

Emmons Ave., east from Coyle to Bragg Streets, showing the Plumb Beach Casino, demolished about 1928, which was the dancing and dining establishment for the bathers and picnickers in this area. December 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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