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Knickerbocker Avenue & Hancock Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Knickerbocker Avenue - Hancock Street, 1924

    Brooklyn: Knickerbocker Avenue - Hancock Street

    1924

  • Brooklyn: Knickerbocker Avenue - Hancock Street, 1924

    Brooklyn: Knickerbocker Avenue - Hancock Street

    1924

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Knickerbocker Avenue - Hancock Street, 1924

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Brooklyn: Knickerbocker Avenue - Hancock Street

1924

Knickerbocker Avenue, north side, east from Hancock Street, showing the St. Martin of Tour Parochial School (building with the flag) and Public School No. 151, both at Weirfield Street. March, 1924 Eugene L. Arnbruster Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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