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Delancey Street & Willett Street, Manhattan

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  • Manhattan: Willett Street - Delancey Street, 1901

    Manhattan: Willett Street - Delancey Street

    1901

  • Manhattan: Delancey Street - Willett Street, 1928

    Manhattan: Delancey Street - Willett Street

    1928

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: Willett Street - Delancey Street, 1901

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Manhattan: Willett Street - Delancey Street

1901

Willett Street, at, adjoining and south of the S. E. corner of Delancey Street, showing structures that are to be demolished as being in the way of the Williamsburg Bridge. Delancey Street is at the left and the view is eastward. About 1901 Ewing Galloway

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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