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Schaeffer Street & Central Avenue, Brooklyn

2 historical photos taken here in 1925, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Schaeffer Street - Central Avenue, 1925

    Brooklyn: Schaeffer Street - Central Avenue

    1925

  • Brooklyn: Schaeffer Street - Central Avenue, 1925

    Brooklyn: Schaeffer Street - Central Avenue

    1925

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Schaeffer Street - Central Avenue, 1925

Photo 1 of 2 at Schaeffer Street & Central Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Schaeffer Street - Central Avenue

1925

(1) Schaeffer Street, at the S.W. corner of Central Ave., showing the R.C. Church and Rectory of the "Fourteenth" Holy Martyrs. March 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, another view. (This church was organized in 1887). March 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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