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Willoughby Ave & Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Willoughby Ave. - Tompkins Ave., 1929

    Brooklyn: Willoughby Ave. - Tompkins Ave.

    1929

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Brooklyn: Willoughby Ave. - Tompkins Ave., 1929

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Brooklyn: Willoughby Ave. - Tompkins Ave.

1929

Willoughby Ave., north side, west from Tompkins Ave., showing at the N.W. corner, the Tompkins Ave. M.E. Church, now a synagogue, known as the Congregation Ohel Moshe Cheirathhelm. April 1929. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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