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Flushing Avenue & Portland Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Portland Avenue (North), 1938

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Portland Avenue (North)

    1938

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Portland Avenue (North), 1938

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Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Portland Avenue (North)

1938

Flushing Avenue (tracks thereon), south side, west from No. Fortland Avenue, to N. Elliott Place. August 25, 1938. P. L. Sperr

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