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Flushing Avenue & Seneca Avenue, Brooklyn

6 historical photos taken here between 1920 and 1929, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue, 1920

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue

    1920

  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue, 1920

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue

    1920

  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue, 1920

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue

    1920

  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue, 1922–1929

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue

    1922; 1929

  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue, 1922–1929

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue

    1922; 1929

  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue, 1922–1929

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue

    1922; 1929

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Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue, 1922–1929

Photo 4 of 6 at Flushing Avenue & Seneca Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Seneca Avenue

1922; 1929

(1) 1325 Flushing Avenue, north side, at Seneca Avenue, showing a home built in 1719 for a daughter of Peter Schenck, who married Peter Lott. In 1765 Nicholas Wyckoff purchased it. For more data see the New York Sun, February 18, 1939. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection (2) The same, showing an easterly view of the Avenue. April 1929 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection (3) The same, a closer view. About 1929 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection Assuming Street to Be East and West

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