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Kings Highway & Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn

5 historical photos taken here in 1922, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue

    1922

  • Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue

    1922

  • Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue

    1922

  • Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue

    1922

  • Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue, 1922

    Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue

    1922

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Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue, 1922

Photo 1 of 5 at Kings Highway & Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Kings Highway - Ocean Avenue

1922

(1) King's Highway, at the S.W. corner of Ocean Ave., showing the Wynant Bennett house which was erected by him in 1825 and occupied by a Bennett until its demolition in 1928. In 1872 the house was turned to face west so as not to interfere with the opening of Ocean Ave. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, another view. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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