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Jefferson Street & Broadway, Brooklyn

5 historical photos taken here between 1925 and 1941, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Jefferson Street - Broadway, 1925

    Brooklyn: Jefferson Street - Broadway

    1925

  • Brooklyn: Jefferson Street - Broadway, 1932

    Brooklyn: Jefferson Street - Broadway

    1932

  • Brooklyn: Stuyvesant Avenue - Broadway, 1932

    Brooklyn: Stuyvesant Avenue - Broadway

    1932

  • Brooklyn: Vernon Ave. - Stuyvesant Ave., 1936

    Brooklyn: Vernon Ave. - Stuyvesant Ave.

    1936

  • Brooklyn: Broadway - Stuyvesant Avenue, 1941

    Brooklyn: Broadway - Stuyvesant Avenue

    1941

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Brooklyn: Vernon Ave. - Stuyvesant Ave., 1936

Photo 4 of 5 at Jefferson Street & Broadway, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Vernon Ave. - Stuyvesant Ave.

1936

Vernon Avenue, west from near Stuyvesant Avenue, showing construction operations on a W. P. A. sewer project. May 6, 1936 Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

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