All the ways to get around Brooklyn in 1915

I count six transportation options Brooklynites had in 1915, according to this rich and detailed postcard of Flatbush Avenue.

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There’s the elevated train, of course, as well as a streetcar, automobile, bicycle, horse and wagon, and of course, getting around on foot, as most of the crowd seems to be doing—when they’re not mugging for the camera against streetlights.

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