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Rodney Street & Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Rodney Street - Bedford Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Rodney Street - Bedford Avenue

    1922

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Rodney Street - Bedford Avenue, 1922

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Brooklyn: Rodney Street - Bedford Avenue

1922

Rodney Street, south side, at and east of Bedford Ave., showing at the corner the Oscar Hawley Mansion, purchased by the Hanover Club in 1891 for $27,000 and enlarged. In 1922, a Jewish Society known as the "Young Israel of Williamsburg" purchased the club for $35,000. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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