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Rockaway Parkway & Foster Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Foster Avenue, 1928–1929

    Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Foster Avenue

    1928; 1929

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Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Foster Avenue, 1928–1929

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Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Foster Avenue

1928; 1929

Rockaway Parkway, south from a point south of Foster Ave. October 1928. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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