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Pennsylvania Avenue & Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1930, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Pennsylvania Avenue - Atlantic Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Pennsylvania Avenue - Atlantic Avenue

    1922

  • Brooklyn: Pennsylvania Avenue - Atlantic Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Pennsylvania Avenue - Atlantic Avenue

    1922

  • Brooklyn: Pennsylvania Avenue - Atlantic Avenue, 1930

    Brooklyn: Pennsylvania Avenue - Atlantic Avenue

    1930

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Pennsylvania Avenue - Atlantic Avenue, 1922

Photo 1 of 3 at Pennsylvania Avenue & Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Pennsylvania Avenue - Atlantic Avenue

1922

Pennsylvania Ave., at the N.E. corner of Atlantic Ave., showing Apollo Hall, which was operated by Jos. Schlaechtner, who owned this corner, and operated a billiard and pool room here in 1873, at the corner. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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