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Schenectady Avenue & St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Schenectady Avenue - St. Marks Avenue, 1940

    Brooklyn: Schenectady Avenue - St. Marks Avenue

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Schenectady Avenue - St. Marks Avenue, 1940

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Brooklyn: Schenectady Avenue - St. Marks Avenue

1940

142 and 140 Schenectady Avenue (right), at the N. W. corner of St. Marks Avenue, showing two old frame dwellings. The small house on the left, with the wooden stairway, is No. 1097 St. Marks Avenue. September 13, 1940 P.L. Sperr

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