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Union St & Van Brunt St, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Union St. - Van Brunt St., 1937

    Brooklyn: Union St. - Van Brunt St.

    1937

  • Brooklyn: Union St. - Van Brunt St., 1937

    Brooklyn: Union St. - Van Brunt St.

    1937

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Union St. - Van Brunt St., 1937

Photo 1 of 2 at Union St & Van Brunt St, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Union St. - Van Brunt St.

1937

(1) 63-67 Union Street, at the N.E. corner of Van Brunt Street, showing on Union Street, a demolished building once No. 65. Surrounding the 4-story tenement, is the site upon which once stood William H. Mair's wall paper factory. In the background is shown, Nos. 65 and 67 Sackett Street. March 27, 1937. P. L. Sperr. (2) The same, further eastward, showing the demolished wall paper factory of William H. Mair. In the background across the clearing, are Nos. 89-93 Sackett Street, and at the right, the rears of a series of 3-story structures, facing on the south side of Sackett Street. March 27, 1937. P. L. Sperr.

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