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Harrison Avenue & Middleton Street, Brooklyn

7 historical photos taken here between 1929 and 1941, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street, 1929

    Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street

    1929

  • Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street, 1931

    Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street

    1931

  • Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street, 1931

    Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street

    1931

  • Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street, 1931

    Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street

    1931

  • Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street, 1931

    Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street

    1931

  • Brooklyn: Middleton Street - Harrison Avenue, 1941

    Brooklyn: Middleton Street - Harrison Avenue

    1941

  • Brooklyn: Middleton Street - Harrison Avenue, 1941

    Brooklyn: Middleton Street - Harrison Avenue

    1941

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Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street, 1929

Photo 1 of 7 at Harrison Avenue & Middleton Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Harrison Avenue - Middleton Street

1929

117 to 133 Harrison Avenue, south from Middleton Street to Lorimer Street. Number 121-23 is the former German Evangelical Church and was used by the congregation as far back as 1886. It was later converted into a synagogue and is used as such at the time of this photograph. May, 1929 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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