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Wallabout St & Clinton Ave, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Wallabout St. - Clinton Ave., 1884

    Brooklyn: Wallabout St. - Clinton Ave.

    1884

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Brooklyn: Wallabout St. - Clinton Ave., 1884

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Brooklyn: Wallabout St. - Clinton Ave.

1884

Wallabout Market, Flushing Ave., north side, between Clinton (left) and East (right) Aves., showing the site upon which the City of Brooklyn founded in 1884 a market built upon swamp land leased for that purpose. In 1891 the City of New York acquired title to this land which was once a part of the New York Naval Yard. Also shown are sailboats anchored in Wallabout Bay. About 1884. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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