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Columbia Street and Atlantic Avenue
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Modern magic on Brooklyn Heights

Residential/commercial section of cobblestoned Atlantic Avenue with several parked and moving trucks, several street lights, and street and other signs and pedestrian (man) in far right foreground. Caption: "Modern magic on Brooklyn Heights--... Mile-long fourth link of the six-link Brooklyn-queens Expressway, from Gowanus Parkway to Brooklyn Bridge, [will be] opened to traffic Tuesday. ... Looking East on Atlantic Ave. at Columbia-Furman Sts. ... Expressway is being constructed by office of Borough President Cashmore. Andrews, Clark & Buckley, consulting engineers."

IMAGE DATE1951
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