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Flushing Avenue & Sumner Place, Brooklyn

4 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1941, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Sumner Place, 1922–1923

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Sumner Place

    1922; 1923

  • Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Sumner Place, 1922–1923

    Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Sumner Place

    1922; 1923

  • Brooklyn: Sumner Place - Flushing Avenue, 1941

    Brooklyn: Sumner Place - Flushing Avenue

    1941

  • Humboldt Street at Flushing Avenue, to Northeast, Brooklyn, 1941-09-25

    Humboldt Street at Flushing Avenue, to Northeast, Brooklyn

    1941-09-25

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Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Sumner Place, 1922–1923

Photo 1 of 4 at Flushing Avenue & Sumner Place, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Flushing Avenue - Sumner Place

1922; 1923

(1) 796-800 Flushing Ave., south side, between Summer Place and Fayette Street. The house standing back from the street is an extension of the Charles De Bevoise house (built in 1836) the main portion of which stood on the site of No. 796. The German branch of the Y.M.C.A., organized in 1878, purchased the old homestead in 1885 and used it until merged with the main Williamsburg Y.M.C.A. About 1922? Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, another view. September 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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