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Upper New York Bay, Brooklyn

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  • Upper New York Bay - Shore and skyline - Brooklyn - Between 52nd and 53rd Streets., 1930

    Upper New York Bay - Shore and skyline - Brooklyn - Between 52nd and 53rd Streets.

    1930

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Upper New York Bay - Shore and skyline - Brooklyn - Between 52nd and 53rd Streets., 1930

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Upper New York Bay - Shore and skyline - Brooklyn - Between 52nd and 53rd Streets.

1930

Upper Bay, between 53rd (left) and 52nd Streets (right), showing at the two extremes the E.W. Bliss Co. piers and those of the Kerr Steamship Co. May 11, 1930. P. L. Sperr.

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