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Rockaway Parkway & Avenue J, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1935, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Avenue J, 1922–1935

    Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Avenue J

    1922; 1933; 1935

  • Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Avenue J, 1922–1935

    Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Avenue J

    1922; 1933; 1935

  • Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Avenue J, 1922–1935

    Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Avenue J

    1922; 1933; 1935

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Avenue J, 1922–1935

Photo 1 of 3 at Rockaway Parkway & Avenue J, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Rockaway Parkway - Avenue J

1922; 1933; 1935

(1) Rockaway Parkway, west side, south of Ave. J, showing the Plymouth Congregational Church, which was organised in 1888. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, Note the outhouse which in a few years, with the extension of modern sanitation, will no longer be seen in Greater New York. A view of a small church not named on the maps of 1929. July 27, 1935. P. L. Sperr. (3) The same, showing the B.M.T. Rockaway Trolley track. July 6, 1933. P. L. Sperr.

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