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

Willoughby Street at Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY. Survey photograph during construction of the BMT Broadway line. Eastward view of stores, pedestrians, automobiles, and an approaching trolley. The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park is visible in the distance.

1915

Willoughby Street and Jay Street

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

Willoughby Street at Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY. Survey photograph during construction of the BMT Broadway line. Eastward view of stores, pedestrians, automobiles, and an approaching trolley. The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park is visible in the distance.

IMAGE DATE1915
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Eastward view of Willoughby Street, at Jay Street, March 16, 1915.

In the distance, the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument is visible in Fort Greene Park. The Beaux-Arts building at center-left is the New York and New Jersey Telephone and Telegraph Building, at the northeast corner of Lawrence Street.

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