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New Jersey Avenue & Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: New Jersey Avenue - Belmont Avenue, 1940

    Brooklyn: New Jersey Avenue - Belmont Avenue

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: New Jersey Avenue - Belmont Avenue, 1940

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Brooklyn: New Jersey Avenue - Belmont Avenue

1940

New Jersey Avenue (poles, right), east side, south from Pitkin to Belmont Avenues, showin a playground, erected by the City of New York. A row of frame dwellings formerly stood here. September 14, 1940 P. L. Sperr

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