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Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here in 1939, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Shore Parkway - Bay Parkway, 1939

    Brooklyn: Shore Parkway - Bay Parkway

    1939

  • Brooklyn: Shore Parkway - Bay Parkway, 1939

    Brooklyn: Shore Parkway - Bay Parkway

    1939

  • Brooklyn: Shore Parkway - Bay Parkway, 1939

    Brooklyn: Shore Parkway - Bay Parkway

    1939

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Shore Parkway - Bay Parkway, 1939

Photo 3 of 3 at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Shore Parkway - Bay Parkway

1939

Belt Parkway, south from Bay Parkway, along the shore of Gravesend Bay. The area seen in these views was later filled with sand from the Bay and the new circumferential highway, which will girdle Brooklyn and Queens, constructed on the fill. Views 2 and 3 show the Senken Coal Company pockets, at Bay 32nd Street. May 28, 1930 Views 1,2,3 P.L. Sperr

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