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Powell Street & New York Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Powell Street - New York Avenue (East), 1929

    Brooklyn: Powell Street - New York Avenue (East)

    1929

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Powell Street - New York Avenue (East), 1929

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Brooklyn: Powell Street - New York Avenue (East)

1929

20-26 Powell Street, west side, between East New York and Liberty Aves, showing a frame structure, with the "for sale" sign, which once housed the Loretto Day Nursery. April 1929. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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