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Jamaica Avenue & Fanchon Place, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Jamaica Avenue - Fanchon Place, 1922

    Brooklyn: Jamaica Avenue - Fanchon Place

    1922

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Brooklyn: Jamaica Avenue - Fanchon Place, 1922

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Brooklyn: Jamaica Avenue - Fanchon Place

1922

Jamaica Ave., at the N.E. corner of Fanchon Place, showing Tubbs Hotel (later in the 1870's it was known as Chris. Koch's Hotel, after many years, it became known as Cavaluzzo's Cafe. It was demolished in 1929). 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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