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Halsey Street & Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Halsey Street - Knickerbocker Avenue, 1925

    Brooklyn: Halsey Street - Knickerbocker Avenue

    1925

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Halsey Street - Knickerbocker Avenue, 1925

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Brooklyn: Halsey Street - Knickerbocker Avenue

1925

Halsey Street, east side, at the north of Knickerbocker Ave., showing the Alhambra Theatre at the corner. May 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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