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Otsego Street & Creamer Street, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here in 1939, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Otsego Street - Creamer Street, 1939

    Brooklyn: Otsego Street - Creamer Street

    1939

  • Brooklyn: Dikeman Street - Otsego Street, 1939

    Brooklyn: Dikeman Street - Otsego Street

    1939

  • Brooklyn: Otsego Street - Creamer Street, 1939

    Brooklyn: Otsego Street - Creamer Street

    1939

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Otsego Street - Creamer Street, 1939

Photo 3 of 3 at Otsego Street & Creamer Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Otsego Street - Creamer Street

1939

Otsego Street(left) north from Creamer Street, showing the Red Hook Houses, a low rent government housing center, under construction on the north side of Lorraine Street. The entire block from Creamer to Lorraine Streets is an empty lot. View 2 is north on Otsego Street, from a point nearer Lorraine Street. April 19,1939 Views 1, 2

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