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Atlantic Avenue and Nevins Street
Atlantic Avenue and Nevins Street
[Atlantic Avenue and Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY]
Atlantic Avenue and Nevins Street NW corner, Brooklyn, NY. Aerial view of corner stores, apartment buildings, and rooftop water tanks. Ex-Lax advertisements are displayed prominently on the side of their building to the left. Note horse and wagon parked on Nevins Street
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New York Transit Museum
New York Transit MuseumWorkshops and storefronts on Atlantic Avenue and Nevins Streets, ca. 1940s. The view is northward along Nevins Street.
The large advertisements at left promote the "home of Ex-Lax." The laxative was, in fact, produced in that very building on Atlantic Avenue. In the era of animal testing, monkeys used to test the product were housed in an enclosed structure on the roof. The building was sold for condo conversion in 1979.
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Urban Archive
Urban Archive