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Shore Road & 79th Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Shore Road - 79th Street, 1917

    Brooklyn: Shore Road - 79th Street

    1917

  • Brooklyn: Shore Road - 79th Street, 1922

    Brooklyn: Shore Road - 79th Street

    1922

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Shore Road - 79th Street, 1922

Photo 2 of 2 at Shore Road & 79th Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Shore Road - 79th Street

1922

(1) Shore Road, at the N.E. corner of 79th Street, showing the J. Remsen Bennett house, which was erected about 1862. This house was owned by David C. Bennett in 1912: in 1917, it was sold to a group of realtors. The house no longer appears on the 1929 maps of Brooklyn. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, from the south side. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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