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St. Nicholas Avenue & 182nd Street, Manhattan

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  • Manhattan: St. Nicholas Avenue - 182nd Street, 1934

    Manhattan: St. Nicholas Avenue - 182nd Street

    1934

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Manhattan: St. Nicholas Avenue - 182nd Street, 1934

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Manhattan: St. Nicholas Avenue - 182nd Street

1934

1445-47 St. Nicholas Avenue (formerly Eleventh Avenue), west side, between 182nd and 183rd Streets. This is a close-up of what even twenty years earlier was suburban Washington Heights. November 3, 1934. P. L. Sperr.

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