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Irving Street & Columbia Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Irving Street - Columbia Street, 1934

    Brooklyn: Irving Street - Columbia Street

    1934

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Irving Street - Columbia Street, 1934

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Brooklyn: Irving Street - Columbia Street

1934

85 Irving Street, north side, west from Columbia Street, showing a frame house not far from the water-front and its docks. August 5, 1934. P. L. Sperr.

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