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Prospect Place & Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Prospect Place - Nostrand Avenue, 1930

    Brooklyn: Prospect Place - Nostrand Avenue

    1930

  • Brooklyn: Prospect Place - Nostrand Avenue, 1930

    Brooklyn: Prospect Place - Nostrand Avenue

    1930

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Prospect Place - Nostrand Avenue, 1930

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Brooklyn: Prospect Place - Nostrand Avenue

1930

Prospect Place, south side, between Nostrand Avenue and Rogers Avenue. Shown in the south wing of Public School No. 138, it being on Park Place. The school is also known as the Maxwell Teachers Training School. Board of Education of the City of New York early 1930's

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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