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Ryerson Street & Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Ryerson Street - Myrtle Avenue, 1930

    Brooklyn: Ryerson Street - Myrtle Avenue

    1930

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Brooklyn: Ryerson Street - Myrtle Avenue, 1930

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Brooklyn: Ryerson Street - Myrtle Avenue

1930

Ryerson Street, east side, just south of Myrtle Avenue, showing Public School No. 69. It was for a time the Brooklyn Continuation School. Board of Education of the City of New York September 5, 1930

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