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Leonard Street & Calyer Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Leonard Street - Calyer Street, 1939

    Brooklyn: Leonard Street - Calyer Street

    1939

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Leonard Street - Calyer Street, 1939

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Brooklyn: Leonard Street - Calyer Street

1939

Leonard Street, south from Calyer Street, showing in the left center foreground the spire of a Polish Church. July 25, 1939 P. L. Sperr

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