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Ferris Street & Dikeman Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Ferris Street - Dikeman Street, 1937

    Brooklyn: Ferris Street - Dikeman Street

    1937

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Brooklyn: Ferris Street - Dikeman Street, 1937

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Brooklyn: Ferris Street - Dikeman Street

1937

Ferris Street (rear of "Cook Electrically" building, a Brooklyn Edison Company building) between Dikeman (left) and Coffey Streets (right). In the foreground is the Buttermilk Channel. August 6, 1937. P. L. Sperr.

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