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Lafayette Avenue & Reid Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Reid Avenue, 1932

    Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Reid Avenue

    1932

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Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Reid Avenue, 1932

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Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Reid Avenue

1932

1078-1090 Lafayette Ave., south side, between Reid and Patchen Aves., showing the Christ Lutheran Church, at No. 1084, as seen from the Broadway B.M.T. Elevated Lines. August 27, 1932. P. L. Sperr.

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