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Driggs Avenue & Lorimer Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Driggs Avenue - Lorimer Street, 1935

    Brooklyn: Driggs Avenue - Lorimer Street

    1935

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Driggs Avenue - Lorimer Street, 1935

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Brooklyn: Driggs Avenue - Lorimer Street

1935

310-334 Driggs Ave., north side, from Lorimer Street to Manhattan Ave. Also shown is Manhattan Ave., north from Leonard Street. Work is in progress on Mc Carren Park, in the foreground. September 10, 1935. P. L. Sperr.

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