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  • Brooklyn Ave - south from Hawthorne to Winthrop Streets., 1929-04

    Brooklyn Ave - south from Hawthorne to Winthrop Streets.

    1929-04

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Brooklyn Ave - south from Hawthorne to Winthrop Streets., 1929-04

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Brooklyn Ave - south from Hawthorne to Winthrop Streets.

1929-04

Brooklyn Ave., south from Hawthorne to Winthrop Streets, in the background, showing in the center, one of the Kings County Hospital Buildings. April 1929. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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