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Quonset Huts for returning veterans after World War II were erected between the Bronx River & Westchester Creek.

I remember in the late '50s seeing concrete platforms

 along Castle Hill Avenue where Quonset Huts had been.

Kenny Josephson's grandmother and father,

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Source Quonset Huts in the Bronx -- about 1947
Author Jim Griffin
Camera location40° 49′ 07.95″ N, 73° 50′ 52.93″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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40°49'7.950"N, 73°50'52.933"W

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