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Stagg Street & Lorimer Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Stagg Street - Lorimer Street, 1935

    Brooklyn: Stagg Street - Lorimer Street

    1935

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Brooklyn: Stagg Street - Lorimer Street, 1935

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Brooklyn: Stagg Street - Lorimer Street

1935

Stagg Street, north side, between Lorimer Street and Manhattan Ave., showing demolition on a large scale, to make way for the new Federal Housing Program. Also seen at the left, is Leonard Street, west side, between Ten Eyck and Maujer Streets, between which is seen St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception R.C. Church, school and convent. Also seen is Leonard Street, at the N.E. corner of Maujer, at center background, showing 5-story Public School No. 17, and the annex to it, which has already been demolished by the Federal Housing Commission. December 22, 1935. P. L. Sperr.

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