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Herkimer Street & Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Herkimer Street - Rockaway Avenue, 1936

    Brooklyn: Herkimer Street - Rockaway Avenue

    1936

  • Fulton Street at Rockaway Avenue, to , Brooklyn, 1942-04-05

    Fulton Street at Rockaway Avenue, to , Brooklyn

    1942-04-05

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Brooklyn: Herkimer Street - Rockaway Avenue, 1936

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Brooklyn: Herkimer Street - Rockaway Avenue

1936

Herkimer Street, north side, between Rockaway Ave., and Eastern Parkway, showing the Church of God -- -- Jesus (Italian), at No. 1325. In 1929 it was the Bleecker Memorial Congregational Church. To the right is P.S. No. 155. April 20, 1936. P. L. Sperr.

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