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[Jay Street and Willoughby Street, BMT Broadway Line, Brooklyn, NY]

Intersection of Jay and Willoughby streets, Brooklyn, NY. Survey photograph during construction of the BMT Broadway line. Northwestward view of a Hungarian restaurant, and a coupon and trading stamp store.

IMAGE DATE1916
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Northwest corner of Jay and Willoughby streets, May 2, 1916.

This survey photograph was taken during construction of the BMT Broadway line. The corner wood-frame building is a (highly advertised) coupon and trading stamp store.The wood-frame buildings on this corner survived into the 1930s. They were razed and in 1947 the modernist headquarters for the Board of Transportation was erected here, with the address 370 Jay Street.

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