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Surf Avenue & West 7th Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Surf Avenue - 7th Street (West), 1928

    Brooklyn: Surf Avenue - 7th Street (West)

    1928

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Surf Avenue - 7th Street (West), 1928

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Brooklyn: Surf Avenue - 7th Street (West)

1928

Surf Ave., west of West 7th Street, showing towers of Luna Park. The towered building on the right, is the Vanderveer house and is at the N.E. corner of West 8th Street. October 1928. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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