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Lafayette Avenue & Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Waverly Avenue, 1940

    Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Waverly Avenue

    1940

  • Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Waverly Place, 1942

    Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Waverly Place

    1942

  • Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Waverly Avenue

    Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Waverly Avenue

    Unknown

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Waverly Avenue, 1940

Photo 1 of 3 at Lafayette Avenue & Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Lafayette Avenue - Waverly Avenue

1940

Lafayette Avenue, north side, east from Waverly Avenue, showing remaining brownstone houses on the block between Waverly and Washington Avenues. Beyond these is the Emanuel Baptist Church and the larger St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, both at St. James Place. P. L. Sperr October 12, 1940

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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