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IMAGE DATE1938
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Rock outcrop on Magenta Street, east of White Plains Road, June 16, 1938.

The land to the left would be set aside for the New York City Housing Authority’s Gun Hill Houses, a six-building development which opened in 1950. The rock formation is still visible on Magenta Street.

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