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Downtown Brooklyn Before MetroTech
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The MetroTech Center is a large business and industrial hub in Downtown Brooklyn. Construction began in 1992, leading to the demolition of more than 100 houses and 50 businesses. Here, you can see what the streets looked like before MetroTech.
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Dilapidated wood-frame houses on Lawrence Street, July 26, 1959. Photographer John D. Morrell's vantage point is roughly at the southwestern corner of the George Westinghouse Jr. High School (P.S. 5).
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36 Lawrence Street
\[West side of Lawrence Street between Tillary Street and Johnson Street, looking south.] West side of Lawrence Street between Tillary Street and Johnson Street, looking south.
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