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Brooklyn Friends School

Caption: "Brooklyn Friends School--Its site at 112 Schermerhorn St. will be used for the new Brooklyn jail;" flag flying from second floor of three-story brick building, several trash cans on sidewalk and one pedestrian in foreground, and portion of high-rise building in far right background.

IMAGE DATE1947
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Opening in 1867, the Brooklyn Friends School started in the basement of the Quaker meeting house in Boerum Hill. One of the earliest New York schools to encourage diversity amongst its students, it still operates today on Pearl Street.

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