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Emmons Avenue & East 29th Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - 29th Street (East), 1940

    Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - 29th Street (East)

    1940

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Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - 29th Street (East), 1940

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Brooklyn: Emmons Avenue - 29th Street (East)

1940

Emmons Avenue, north side, between East 29th Street and Nostrand Avenue. Shown is a row of bungalows, which appear on Hyde's 1929 map as Nos. 1 to 15 Cantor Avenue, the latter evidently being the stretch of low land in front of the dwellings. June 13, 1940 P. L. Sperr

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