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  • Brooklyn: Sterling Place - Flatbush Avenue, 1937

    Brooklyn: Sterling Place - Flatbush Avenue

    1937

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Brooklyn: Sterling Place - Flatbush Avenue, 1937

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Brooklyn: Sterling Place - Flatbush Avenue

1937

160-184 Sterling Place, south side, west from Flatbush to Seventh Aves., showing also at the right foreground, the N.W. corner of Flatbush Ave. and Sterling Place. In the background next to No. 160, is a new Christian Science Church.* January 1, 1937. P. L. Sperr. * Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist. 156 Sterling Place.

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