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Tenement with vacant storefronts: Humboldt St.-Boerum St., Brooklyn

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    Tenement with vacant storefronts: Humboldt St.-Boerum St., Brooklyn

    1934

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Tenement with vacant storefronts: Humboldt St.-Boerum St., Brooklyn, 1934

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Tenement with vacant storefronts: Humboldt St.-Boerum St., Brooklyn

1934

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