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Pier 21

Brooklyn Bridge with Pier 21, Pennsylvania Railroad; Changing New York

The pier shed of the Pennsylvania and B & O Railroads at Pier 21 with the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge in the background, taken from South Street between Peck Slip and Dover Street.

IMAGE DATE1937
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Railroad sheds at Pier 21 on the East River, March 30, 1937.

Berenice Abbott's photo captures the pier shed of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads at Pier 21 with the Brooklyn Bridge immediately above and Manhattan Bridge in the background. The pier was removed in the late 1960s.

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