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  • Brooklyn: Grand Street - Bedford Avenue, 1923

    Brooklyn: Grand Street - Bedford Avenue

    1923

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Brooklyn: Grand Street - Bedford Avenue, 1923

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Brooklyn: Grand Street - Bedford Avenue

1923

189-199 Grand Street, north side, between Bedford and Driggs Aves. S. Woolsey and Sons building, was erected in 1894; the firm was dissolved in 1909. The site was occupied in 1846, by Sewards Dry Goods store, and in 1929 was No. 193 Grand Street. November 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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