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Hicks Street & Rapelye Street, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Rapelye Street - Hicks Street, 1930

    Brooklyn: Rapelye Street - Hicks Street

    1930

  • Brooklyn: Hicks Street - Rapelye Street, 1934

    Brooklyn: Hicks Street - Rapelye Street

    1934

  • Brooklyn: Hicks Street - Rapelye Street, 1940

    Brooklyn: Hicks Street - Rapelye Street

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Rapelye Street - Hicks Street, 1930

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Brooklyn: Rapelye Street - Hicks Street

1930

Rapelye Street, north side, east from and including Hicks Street, showing St. Bernards R.C. Church and Rectory which are not designated in the Brooklyn Atlas of 1929. Also seen on Hicks Street is No. 651. February 21, 1930. P. L. Sperr.

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