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Sheffield Avenue & Wortman Avenue, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here in 1934, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Sheffield Avenue - Wortman Avenue, 1934

    Brooklyn: Sheffield Avenue - Wortman Avenue

    1934

  • Brooklyn: Sheffield Avenue - Wortman Avenue, 1934

    Brooklyn: Sheffield Avenue - Wortman Avenue

    1934

  • Brooklyn: Sheffield Avenue - Wortman Avenue

    Brooklyn: Sheffield Avenue - Wortman Avenue

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Sheffield Avenue - Wortman Avenue, 1934

Photo 1 of 3 at Sheffield Avenue & Wortman Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Sheffield Avenue - Wortman Avenue

1934

Sheffield Ave., (foreground) at the S.W. corner of Wortman Ave., showing a new incinerator, one of the many being built by the City of New York, after a court order was obtained by the State of New Jersey on the charge that New York was polluting the Jersey beaches by dumping its garbage at sea. August 4, 1934. P. L. Sperr.

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