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Park Place & Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn

2 historical photos taken here in 1935, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Park Place - Vanderbilt Avenue, 1935

    Brooklyn: Park Place - Vanderbilt Avenue

    1935

  • Brooklyn: Park Place - Vanderbilt Avenue, 1935

    Brooklyn: Park Place - Vanderbilt Avenue

    1935

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Park Place - Vanderbilt Avenue, 1935

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Brooklyn: Park Place - Vanderbilt Avenue

1935

Park Place, west from Vanderbilt Avenue to Carlton Avenue, showing a W. P. A. sewer project. July, 1935 Views 1,2 Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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