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#11 Lynch Park, Brooklyn, NYC, June 1974.

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#11 Lynch Park, Brooklyn, NYC, June 1974.

Dirty and Polluted New York City in the 1970s: Vintage Photos Show the Another Side of NYC Before the Great Clean-up Began

#11 Lynch Park, Brooklyn, NYC, June 1974.

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