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Park Avenue & Emerson Place, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Emerson Place, 1941

    Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Emerson Place

    1941

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Emerson Place, 1941

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Brooklyn: Park Avenue - Emerson Place

1941

Park Avenue, south side, east from Emerson Place to Classon Avenue. P. L. Sperr April 12, 1941

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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