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Paul Avenue & Bedford Park Boulevard, Bronx

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  • Bronx: Paul Avenue - Bedford Park Boulevard, 1938

    Bronx: Paul Avenue - Bedford Park Boulevard

    1938

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Bronx: Paul Avenue - Bedford Park Boulevard, 1938

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Bronx: Paul Avenue - Bedford Park Boulevard

1938

Paul Avenue, south of Bedford Park Boulevard, showing a coffee shack that serves the laborers working on the construction of the new thoroughfare and the Hunter College grounds. On the right is visible the elevated structure of the I.R.T. subway, on Jerome Avenue. May 5, 1938. P. L. Sperr.

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