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Leonard Street & Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Leonard Street - Driggs Avenue, 1931

    Brooklyn: Leonard Street - Driggs Avenue

    1931

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Brooklyn: Leonard Street - Driggs Avenue, 1931

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Brooklyn: Leonard Street - Driggs Avenue

1931

Leonard Street, west side, between Driggs Avenue and Nassau Avenue, showing Public School No. 59. Board of Education of the City of New York May 19, 1931

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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