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This vintage aerial photograph from the early 1930s shows the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood in Brooklyn before the addition of Robert Moses' Belt Parkway cut-off the neighborhood's access to and views of the bay. Here is a present-day view from approximately the same angle:
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Matt Coneybeare
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Matt enjoys exploring the City's with his partner and son. He is an avid marathon runner, and spends most of his time eating, running, and working on cool stuff.
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![Rockefeller Center under construction, New York City, 1932 | Rockefeller Center rises in mid-Manhattan. Photograph by Hamilton M. Wright for Aerial Explorations, Inc., N.Y., 1932.
From the New York World-Telegram Collection at the <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" rel="nofollow">U.S. Library of Congress</a>.
<a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=world-telegram&m=tags&w=76204898@N00&s=int">More pictures from the World-Telegram Collection</a>
<b>[PD]</b> <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c36071" rel="nofollow">This picture</a> is assumed to be in the public domain.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/c03f905321f5e3e383d381201f21932e/elements/7dadc1d93560ddaa49c687ee10618f7d/xs/2d9e6f2e-13c0-4bcf-8139-2834c4286132_2x.jpg)
