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Bensonhurst Maternity Hospital

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Bensonhurst Maternity Hospital was built in the mid 1920s "across Bay Parkway from JCH" (Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst). It had its share of families with fathers who "paced ... and nervously smoked one cigarette after another" and families with sad news.As of 2016, the building houses a Jewish School.

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Bensonhurst Maternity Hospital
Bay Parkway, New York Brooklyn

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Magen David Yeshivah High School

Bay Parkway 7801
11214 New York, Brooklyn
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