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West 166th Street & Edgecombe Avenue, Manhattan

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  • Manhattan: 166th Street (West) - Edgecombe Avenue, 1934

    Manhattan: 166th Street (West) - Edgecombe Avenue

    1934

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Manhattan: 166th Street (West) - Edgecombe Avenue, 1934

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Manhattan: 166th Street (West) - Edgecombe Avenue

1934

461 West 166th Street, north side, between Edgecombe and Amsterdam Aves., showing the Den Norske Frei Missions Menighed. This new brick structure replaced a 2-story frame house that appears in Bromley's Atlas of 1922. April 8, 1934. P. L. Sperr.

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