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Kings Highway & East 96th Street, Brooklyn

2 historical photos taken here in 1925, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Kings Highway - 96th Street (East), 1925

    Brooklyn: Kings Highway - 96th Street (East)

    1925

  • Brooklyn: Kings Highway - 96th Street (East), 1925

    Brooklyn: Kings Highway - 96th Street (East)

    1925

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Brooklyn: Kings Highway - 96th Street (East), 1925

Photo 1 of 2 at Kings Highway & East 96th Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Kings Highway - 96th Street (East)

1925

(1) King's Highway, (Hunterfly Road), at the N.W. corner of East 96th Street, showing the older John Mehl house and barns. This house does not show in the 1929 Atlas of Brooklyn. March 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, looking west of East 96th Street. King's Highway cuts diagonally through the site of the Mehl house. March 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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