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Commerce Avenue & Butler Place, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Commerce Avenue - Butler Place, 1928

    Bronx: Commerce Avenue - Butler Place

    1928

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Bronx: Commerce Avenue - Butler Place, 1928

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Bronx: Commerce Avenue - Butler Place

1928

Commerce Ave., adjoining the N.W. corner of Butler Place, showing a cemetery overgrown with weeds and tall grass. In the background is visible the spire of St. Peters P.E. Church on Westchester Ave. at the S.E. corner of Seabury Ave. July 25, 1928. P. L. Sperr.

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