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Summit Street & Columbia Street, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here between 1935 and 1940, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Summit Street - Columbia Street, 1935

    Brooklyn: Summit Street - Columbia Street

    1935

  • Brooklyn: Columbia Street - Summit Street, 1940

    Brooklyn: Columbia Street - Summit Street

    1940

  • Brooklyn: Summit Street - Columbia Street, 1940

    Brooklyn: Summit Street - Columbia Street

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Summit Street - Columbia Street, 1935

Photo 1 of 3 at Summit Street & Columbia Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Summit Street - Columbia Street

1935

Summit Street, west from Columbia Street to Hamilton Avenue, showing W. P. A. laborers working on a sewer project. The houses, on the left, are on the south side of Summit Street; those in the background are on the west side of Hamilton Avenue. September 24, 1935 Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

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